Problem w/ cygwin tar.exe: Unable to tar directories beginning w/ the letter 'R' in NT 4.0
Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)
lhall@rfk.com
Tue Feb 6 09:43:00 GMT 2001
At 12:34 PM 2/6/2001, VanRossem, James wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>Basically when i run
>
>tar -cvfz file.tgz c:david\adv\roy
>I get an error
>oy: No such file or directory
>
>Any ideas? or work arounds? (besides changing the directory name)
>Thanks all.
>I appreciate your time and help.
Yes, you need to be careful and check documentation. First, I suspect that
you're invoking this from sh/bash. If so, '\' is an escape character so you
need to quote it or double it to get it interpreted correctly. Also, tar
interprets "c" as a host, since it precedes ":" (see ter --help). You can
use /cygdrive/c/david/adv/roy instead to avoid this issue.
Larry Hall lhall@rfk.com
RFK Partners, Inc. http://www.rfk.com
118 Washington Street (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office
Holliston, MA 01746 (508) 893-9889 - FAX
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