Description of problem: tar seems to have problems extracting files from archives when a wildcard specifying which files to extract is given on the command line. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 1.15.91-1 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. mkdir foo.new 2. touch foo.new/foo.bar 3. tar cvf foo.new.tar foo.new 4. tar xvf foo.new.tar "*.bar" Actual results: tar output: tar: Pattern matching characters used in file names. Please, tar: use --wildcards to enable pattern matching, or --no-wildcards to tar: suppress this warning. tar: *.bar: Not found in archive tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors Expected results: tar output: foo.new/foo.bar Additional info: If it helps, this worked in 1.15.90-7.
It's not a bug. This behavior has been changed by upstream. more info: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-tar/2006-06/msg00001.html