The following reply was made to PR bin/30168; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Berndt Josef Wulf <wulf@ping.net.au>
To: gnats-bugs@netbsd.org
Cc: gnats-admin@netbsd.org, netbsd-bugs@netbsd.org
Subject: Re: bin/30168: NetBSD tar does not match filenames containing glob characters
Date: Sun, 8 May 2005 06:55:31 +0930

 On Sunday 08 May 2005 06:36, J.T. Conklin wrote:
 > >Number:         30168
 > >Category:       bin
 > >Synopsis:       NetBSD tar does not match filenames containing glob
 > > characters Confidential:   no
 > >Severity:       serious
 > >Priority:       medium
 > >Responsible:    bin-bug-people
 > >State:          open
 > >Class:          sw-bug
 > >Submitter-Id:   net
 > >Arrival-Date:   Sat May 07 21:06:00 +0000 2005
 > >Originator:     J.T. Conklin
 > >Release:        NetBSD 3.0_BETA
 > >Organization:
 >
 > J.T. Conklin
 >
 > >Environment:
 >
 > System: NetBSD k8 3.0_BETA NetBSD 3.0_BETA (GENERIC) #0: Mon May  2
 > 02:38:27 PDT 2005 
 > jtc@k8:/home/jtc/netbsd/NetBSD-3/obj-amd64/sys/arch/amd64/compile/GENERIC
 > amd64 Architecture: x86_64
 > Machine: amd64
 >
 > >Description:
 >
 > NetBSD tar's pattern matching doesn't seem to match filenames containing
 > shell glob characters like '['.
 >
 > >How-To-Repeat:
 >
 > Suppose you wanted to extract only /bin/[ from base.tgz.  You might try:
 >
 >     $ tar -zxvf base.tgz ./bin/\\[
 >
 > (one \ is for the shell, the other to quote the [ for tar) which works
 > fine with GNU tar.  But NetBSD tar returns:
 >
 >     tar: ustar vol 1, 3706 files, 68044800 bytes read, 0 bytes written in 1
 > secs (68044800 bytes/sec) tar: WARNING! These patterns were not matched:
 >     ./bin/\[
 >
 > (Actually, it doesn't work 100% with GNU tar, nor will it with NetBSD
 > tar once this problem is resolved.  This is because ./bin/[ is a hard
 > link to ./bin/test which occurs first in the archive; when it gets to
 > ./bin/[ there it's already skipped the contents.  Nothing can be done
 > about that...)
 >
 > >Fix:
 > >
 > >
 > >Unformatted:
 
 work find for me with a single backslash
 
 husky: {10} which tar
 /bin/tar
 
 husky: {8} tar zcvfp test.tar.gz \[
 [
 tar: ustar vol 1, 1 files, 0 bytes read, 10240 bytes written in 1 secs (10240 
 bytes/sec)
 husky: {9} tar ztvfp test.tar.gz
 -rw-r--r--  1 wulf     wheel        180 May  8 06:53 [
 tar: ustar vol 1, 1 files, 10240 bytes read, 0 bytes written in 1 secs (10240 
 bytes/sec)
 
 cheerio Berndt
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