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bash-3.2$ which tar
/usr/bin/tar
bash-3.2$ strings /usr/bin/tar | grep -i version
tar: file # %llu: (%s) UTF-8 conversion failed.
tar: conversion routines not available for...

It works when I do not give the -C option.

See the output below:

bash-3.2$ cp bent.tar /tmp
bash-3.2$ cd /tmp
bash-3.2$ tar -xvf bent.tar
x bent, 0 bytes, 0 tape blocks
x bent/002, 0...

Here is the information you requested.

bash-3.2$ df -k /tmp
Filesystem kbytes used avail capacity Mounted on
swap 15585680 1294448 14291232 9% /tmp...

File permissions is also not the issue here ....

I even tried extracting it to /tmp but its not working.

I can even make a video demonstration and share the link here if you would like ?
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The listing is too big to paste here ... but here is what it looks like.

bash-3.2$ tar -tvf bent.tar
drwxr-xr-x 0/0 0 Apr 18 00:28 2017 bent/
-rw-r--r-- 0/0 5926 Jul 18 03:56...

No complaints after removing the '-' but same result ... nothing gets extracted at the given location.

Other suggestions please.

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Below are my system and tar details.

bash-3.2$ uname -a
SunOS mymac 5.10 Generic_150400-40 sun4v sparc sun4v
bash-3.2$ which tar
/usr/bin/tar


I use this command to untar at the file...