On Tue, Aug 01, 2006 at 06:53:55PM -0600, Charles Curley wrote: > On Tue, Aug 01, 2006 at 04:22:47PM -0400, Chuck Anderson wrote: > > 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 ./ > > I suspect there's the problem. Tar "restores" ., changing its > permissions as it goes. Thanks for the suggestions. I managed to get this extracted using pax instead of tar: gzip -dc file.tar.gz | pax -r I would have thought either of the GNU tar options --no-recursive or --no-same-permissions would have worked, but I guess not. Seems to me that GNU tar is b0rked either in design or implementation, because the contents of the archive shouldn't affect the ability to extract it.
