tar command fail to extract filenames with wildcard characters on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

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Issue

  • Unable to extract file with name "[" from tar archive.
  • tar comman gives an error while extracting filenames with wildcard characters.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  • tar

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