On Wednesday, July 27, 2016 8:59:57 AM CEST John Wildman wrote: > Trying to run this command: > > running from the e: drive > > tar -xvf tarfile.tar -C d:\directoryname > > getting an error that says: > > tar: cannot change to directory e:\/d:: Invalid argument > tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now.
Based on the error output, this looks like old GNU tar implementation (1.23?). Are you able to test the latest GNU tar 1.29? > I don't have room on the e:\drive to untar the file. Nor do I have room to > copy the tar and untar it on the d:\ drive. > > Any help would be appreciated. Don't use '-C' option: * change directory to d:\ first * tar -xvf e:\dir\tarfile.tar Pavel
