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| From: | Ruth Griswold |
| Subject: | [Bug-tar] Using tar on a file with a non-ASCII filename |
| Date: | Fri, 29 Jun 2007 15:41:57 -0700 |
| I have a program set up to archive several folders on a server computer every night using the tar command. These folders contain files which are put onto the server from people in other countries, so there are some filenames that are in ASCII format. I recently ran into a problem where I was unable to open one of the tar files created. Running the tar -x command identified one particular file within the tar file that was causing problems, and when I removed this file, the archive worked properly. The error it gave me was: "Demo/Catal\340.pdf: Cannot open: Invalid argument. Error exit delayed from previous errors" When I try to use the tar -list command on the file, I get the following: "macmini:~/Desktop macmini$ tar --list -f Demo.tar.bz2 tar: This does not look like a tar archive tar: Skipping to next header tar: Archive contains obsolescent base-64 headers tar: Read 7182 bytes from Demo.tar.bz2 tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors" This file is not corrupted, I can open it without any problems, I am assuming that the issue is that the name is not in ASCII format. It is called CatalA.pdf, with a tilde over the last A, and the pdf is in another language. I also have some filenames in Chinese characters, which show up as empty boxes in the document title. When I archive the folder with these files, there is no problem creating an openable archive, but all of these files are left out of it. There is a message for each one when the archive is being created, where the empty boxes are replaced with 0's and there is an error message about each specific file. Is the problem with the first file the name? Is there any way using tar to create an archive of all of the files that I want to, regardless of whether or not they are in ASCII, or do I need to convert them into a different format each time? Thank you, Ruth Ruth Griswold (831)464-4100 Learning in Motion, Inc. 497 Lake Avenue Santa Cruz, CA 95062 |
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