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From: haley@unmvax.cs.unm.edu (Timothy P. Haley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mips
Subject: tar bug??? (lack of) feature???
Keywords: RS2030, tar
Message-ID: <1991Jan4.165328.21000@unmvax.cs.unm.edu>
Date: 4 Jan 91 16:53:28 GMT
Sender: haley@unmvax.cs.unm.edu (Timothy P. Haley)
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We have an RS2030 running Risc/OS 4.51.  We seem to be having trouble
using wildcards when extracting from tar archives.  For example
we have an archive file called stuff which has a bunch of files stored
in it with names of the form *.in along with *.logs and other files.
I wanted to extract only the .in files. So I typed ....

tar -xvf stuff "*.in"

Tar thought about it for a short time and then gave me my prompt back.
It didnt find any of the .in's.  So heres the question:  Is this not the
correct way to look for files in the tar file using wildcards? [If you dont 
quote the *.in the shell will try to expand it]  Or is this a bug or is 
wildcard matching like this not supported by tar.

Thanx,
Tim

Tim Haley                       haley@unmvax.cs.unm.edu
Part Time Grad Student
Full Time Worker Bee at Ball Systems
Sometimes confused.