tar -xvvf truncates directory names in its output of lines: drwxr-xr-x Creating directory: <dir>
whenever <dir> has quote marks or backslash escapes added.
Eg (using bash)
tab=`echo -e "\t"`
mkdir "my${tab}dir"
touch "my${tab}dir"/x
tar cf mytar.tar "my${tab}dir"/x
rm -r "my${tab}dir"
tar -xvvf mytar.tar
outputs:
drwxr-xr-x Creating directory: my\tdi
(tar 1.26 tested).
David
