Unix tar file with colons in archived file names

[Lewis Hyatt]

> 
> When the cygwin tar recognizes this, due to Windows restrictions, the output
> file is not properly extracted.  I Googled around and found options for
> --force-file and  http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2001-01/msg01536.html this
> link , but I still can't get this to work properly.
> 
> I am able to get the files extracted if I use WinRAR (it converts : to _ on
> extract), but I'd prefer to do this from the shell since I can automate this
> more readily.  Any ideas how I can do this?

just use "--transform='s/:/_/g'", you can turn the colons into whatever 
you want.

-lewis


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