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[Bug-tar] Incorrect "Creating directory:" lines for tar -xvvf


From: dr1024
Subject: [Bug-tar] Incorrect "Creating directory:" lines for tar -xvvf
Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2011 10:22:26 +0800
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15)

tar -xvvf truncates directory names in its output of lines:
drwxr-xr-x                  Creating directory: <dir>

whenever <dir> has quote marks or backslash escapes added.

Eg (using bash)

tab=`echo -e "\t"`
mkdir "my${tab}dir"
touch "my${tab}dir"/x
tar cf mytar.tar "my${tab}dir"/x
rm -r "my${tab}dir"
tar -xvvf mytar.tar

outputs:
drwxr-xr-x                  Creating directory: my\tdi

(tar 1.26 tested).

David



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