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-rw-r--r--archival/tar.c8
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/archival/tar.c b/archival/tar.c
index dba6bbcc4..a34eb3ca1 100644
--- a/archival/tar.c
+++ b/archival/tar.c
@@ -615,6 +615,14 @@ int tar_main(int argc, char **argv)
unsigned char tar_create = FALSE;
#endif
+ /* Prepend '-' to the first argument if required */
+ if (argv[1][0] != '-') {
+ char *tmp = xmalloc(strlen(argv[1]) + 2);
+ tmp[0] = '-';
+ strcpy(tmp + 1, argv[1]);
+ argv[1] = tmp;
+ }
+
if (argc < 2) {
show_usage();
}