Please Cc: me on any replies. Thanks. I have a tar archive that someone managed to create with no-readable directories in it, including '.' dr-xr-xr-x user/group 0 2006-06-22 20:44 ./ dr-xr-xr-x user/group 0 2006-06-22 20:24 pos/ -r--r--r-- user/group 701771 2004-08-16 20:09 pos/foo dr-xr-xr-x user/group 0 2006-06-22 21:19 ssl/ dr-xr-xr-x user/group 13423 2006-06-22 21:19 ssl/bar When I try to extract the tar archive, it changes the permissions on . and then cannot create directories under ., causing the entire extraction to fail. >tar xvzf files.tar.gz ./ pos/ tar: pos: Cannot mkdir: Permission denied pos/foo tar: pos/foo: Cannot open: No such file or directory tar: Skipping to next header ssl/ tar: ssl: Cannot mkdir: Permission denied ssl/bar tar: ssl/bar: Cannot open: No such file or directory tar: Skipping to next header tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors I've tried all sorts of options, and none of them seem to work (same results as above): tar -x --no-recursion --no-same-permissions -vzf files.tar.gz tar -x --no-recursion --no-same-permissions -x -v -z -f files.tar.gz Am I using tar correctly?
