Re: How to untar when case insensitivity is a problem?
Re: How to untar when case insensitivity is a problem?
- Subject: Re: How to untar when case insensitivity is a problem?
- From: Jonas Maebe <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2011 18:54:38 +0200
On 15 Apr 2011, at 18:46, Asiga Nael wrote:
> I've a tar file created on a case sensitive UNIX system. When restoring this file in OSX, the tar utility shows errors of type "Can't remove already-existing dir: Directory not empty" because on such tar file there're several directories whose names only differ in case.
>
> I'm wondering if there's some way of telling tar to rename these dirs when untar-ing them, or if there's an alternative to tar that could do it.
The easiest way is probably to create a disk image with a case-sensitive file system, mount it and then untar the file there. That's not possible under pure Darwin (it doesn't have disk image support), but it does work on plain Mac OS X.
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