untar windows-files

AnPe · 11-12-2010, 05:14 AM

Hi there.
I´m trying to untar files on my linux-server, that was created on a windows-server. The problem is that the file is in a windows subdirectory, and therefor contains a "\" in the filename. How can I untar a file xxxxx\yyyy.zzz from an windows-archive, to a linux xxxxx/yyyy.zzz.

Or isn´t it possible?

acid_kewpie · 11-12-2010, 07:27 AM

Assuming this is actually just about an illegal character in the filename, just escape it, putting an extra \ before it, i.e. xxxxx\yyyy.zzz becomes xxxxx\\yyyy.zzz or enclose the whole file name in single quote marks - 'xxxxx\yyyy.zzz'

BenCollver · 11-13-2010, 01:08 PM

pax and tar can both deal with this.

pax -r -f foo.tar -s ',\\,/,'

tar xf foo.tar --transform='s,\\,/,'

AnPe · 11-14-2010, 02:05 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by BenCollver2

pax and tar can both deal with this.

pax -r -f foo.tar -s ',\\,/,'

tar xf foo.tar --transform='s,\\,/,'

Lovely. This solved all my problems. I´ve been looking for this in man-pages and on the net, but not found it. Thanks a lot.