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Re: Tar extraction: Member name contains `..'


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: Tar extraction: Member name contains `..'
Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2004 07:20:20 +0200

> Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2004 17:12:23 -0400
> From: Fred Ma <address@hidden>
> 
> The problem is that files starting with '..' can be archived, but not
> extracted.

You mean, files like "../foo"?  Use the -P switch to tell Tar to do
that anyway.




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