The following shows the list of a tar file. Note that Pg.html and Pg.pm are duplicated. Whislts there are many 'directories', they are all empty and when you untar it, everything is dumped into the current directory.

For the duplicates, it extracts the first of each and refuses to overwite it with the second. It is the second (of each) that I need. How can I get them?

Is this a GNU vs. POSIX tar problem> Is there some magic switch I'm missing? 

C:>tar -tf DBD-Pg-2.10.0-Perl5.8.tar
.exists
.exists
Pg.bs
Pg.dll
Pg.dll.manifest
Pg.exp
Pg.lib
Pg.pdb
Pg
DBD
auto
arch
.exists
bin
Pg.html
DBD
Bundle
Pg.html
DBD
lib
site
html
.exists
Pg
DBD
auto
Pg.pm
DBD
Bundle
.exists
Pg.pm
DBD
lib
.exists
script
blib

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In reply to [OT] Tar file with non-identical duplicate files and no paths? by BrowserUk

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