tar: ././@LongLink: typeflag 'L' not recognized, converting to regular file

Received the following error using tar on Solaris

tar: ././@LongLink: typeflag 'L' not recognized, converting to regular file

The solution is to use gtar instead of tar

/usr/sfw/bin/gtar

1 comments:

Unknown August 27, 2009 at 3:28 AM  

This was a quick to find and easy to use solution for me. I did have to preface the gtar with the path, as it was not pathed in my environment and it is working like a charm. Thanks!

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