On Tuesday, September 11, 2018 10:30:28 PM CEST Sergey Poznyakoff wrote:
> Since the second copy failed to extract (being absent from the archive),
> tar reported the fact with the 'Not found in archive' diagnostic
> message.
Is there a way to make the diagnostic message more obvious? Something l
Hi Fabio,
> When trying to extract a file multiple times I get the misleading
> error "Not found in archive".
That's expected behavior. A tar archive can contain multiple copies of
the same file, and the user may wish to extract some or all of them. If
any of the requested copies is not found in
When trying to extract a file multiple times I get the misleading error "Not
found in archive".
Here are the steps to reproduce the problem:
$ touch test
$ tar cvf t.tar test
$ rm -f test
$ tar xf t.tar test test
tar: test: Not found in archive
tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous er
When trying to extract a file multiple times I get the misleading error "Not
found in archive".
Here are the steps to reproduce the problem:
$ touch test
$ tar cvf t.tar test
$ rm -f test
$ tar xf t.tar test test
tar: test: Not found in archive
tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous er
