On Thu, 15 Mar 2007 09:24:17 +0100
Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

[snip]

> The wildcard (glob pattern) will be expanded to all the *.tar.bz2
> filenames in one line, separated by spaces. This is fed as the argument
> to tar. It looks like the "extract" action interprets the first filename
> as the archive and the rest as files which should be extracted from that
> archive. Of course it can then not find these names in the first archive
> and fails.

Just to amplify what Florian and the others are saying, the *shell* is
doing the wildcard expansion, not the tar command itself.

Celejar


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