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[Bug-tar] Regarding untaring tar files containing symlinks


From: Amit Kapila
Subject: [Bug-tar] Regarding untaring tar files containing symlinks
Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2014 19:21:26 +0530

While working on one software, I face the requirement
to untar a tar file on windows and it contains symlinks as
well.

While untaring it using tar -xvf abc.tar, it gives me below
error for symlinks:

tar.exe: xyz/1234: Cannot create symlink to `E:\\sym_loc': Not a directory

The directory sym_loc already exists, is this a known
limitation of tar on Windows?

Is there any solution/workaround for same?

With Regards,
Amit Kapila.

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