Hello,
I’ve incurred in a bug in GNU tar, happening at least from version 1.17 and still present in current version 1.28.
The issue is: when using option “--wildcards” and the archive contains more than 255 files, some files are silentkly skipped from commands such as listing (-t) and extraction (-x).
This is a reproducible testcase:
$ mkdir files
$ for i in `seq -w 800`; do touch files/$i; done
--> generate 800 files named from 001 to 800
$ ls -1 files/ |wc -l
--> 800
$ tar -cf f.tar files/*
$ tar -tf f.tar |wc -l --> 800
$ tar --wildcards -tf f.tar '*' |wc -l --> 797
By analyzing output from
tar --wildcards -tf f.tar '*'
it can be seen that files n. 256,
512 and 768 are missing.
I’m working on Solaris SPARC 5.9; tar was compiled from sources with Sun C compiler 5.8.
Regards,
ROMANO MASPERO
Project Service Leader
SS IT Vodafone & Wireline
Ericsson
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