Thanks to all, that just might be what I'm looking for. Also, I made a typo in my original message. My mistake :). I meant to type "force-local" instead of "force-file". According to the tar help pages:
--force-local archive file is local even if it has a colon I couldn't get this to work, though. Brian Dessent wrote: > > gmoney3138 wrote: > >> When the cygwin tar recognizes this, due to Windows restrictions, the >> output >> file is not properly extracted. I Googled around and found options for > > Use a managed mount or "--transform s,:,_,g". > > I'm not sure what this --force-file you mention is but it's not a valid > tar option. --force-local might have been what you were looking for, > however the purpose of that is for overriding the meaning of colon when > specifying the name of the input file to read, not for dealing with > filenames inside a tarball that contain a colon, so it's irrelevant to > this case. > > Brian > > -- > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ > > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Unix-tar-file-with-colons-in-archived-file-names-tf4111986.html#a11694037 Sent from the Cygwin Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
