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Bug 440662 - extraction of files with special characters only when in directory
extraction of files with special characters only when in directory
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: file-roller
Classification: Applications
Component: general
2.19.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
: ---
Assigned To: Paolo Bacchilega
file-roller-maint
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2007-05-23 10:44 UTC by Sebastien Bacher
Modified: 2007-06-04 16:27 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.19/2.20


Description Sebastien Bacher 2007-05-23 10:44:41 UTC 
The bug has been opened on https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/file-roller/+bug/106736

"Binary package hint: file-roller

The attached tar.gz archive contains a directory with some files. Opening the archive with file-roller and extracting directly works fine. But entering the "torrents" directory in file-roller to extract the containing files directly, without the directory fails with an error message complaining about special characters.

http://librarian.launchpad.net/7333537/torrents.tar.gz
torrents.tar.gz

I can reproduce this. You need to actually extract the folder from within file-roller. Here is the error-message I got. I assume the ampersand is what is creating this problem.

tar: Pattern matching characters used in file names. Please,
tar: use --wildcards to enable pattern matching, or --no-wildcards to
tar: suppress this warning.
..."
Comment 1 Paolo Bacchilega 2007-06-04 16:27:40 UTC 
This problem has been fixed in the development version. The fix will be available in the next major software release. Thank you for your bug report.