Re: [Bug-tar] error "Not found in archive"

[Sergey Poznyakoff]

Hi Fabio,

> When trying to extract a file multiple times I get the misleading
> error "Not found in archive".

That's expected behavior. A tar archive can contain multiple copies of
the same file, and the user may wish to extract some or all of them. If
any of the requested copies is not found in the archive, an appropriate
error message is issued. In your case, you requested to extract two
copies of file named 'test'. Since the second copy failed to extract
(being absent from the archive), tar reported the fact with the 'Not
found in archive' diagnostic message. 

Regards,
Sergey