title: Windows command line tar "cannot connect to d: resolve failed" with Chef Knife
body: <p>Using Windows Command line with cygwin, chef and ruby installed.  When trying</p>
  
  <pre><code>knife cookbook site install mysql
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>returns the following error  </p>
  
  <pre><code>Begin output of tar zxvf D:/path/to/chef-repo/cookbooks/mysql.tar.gz  
  STDOUT:  
  STDERR: tar&lt;child&gt;: Cannot connect to D: resolve failed  
  gzip: stdin: undexpected end of file  
  tar: Child returned status 128  
  tar:  Error is not recoverable: exiting now&lt;/code&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>How can I remedy this issue?  I can manually unzip using  </p>
  
  <pre><code>tar zxvf mysql.tar.gz  
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>but this is less than ideal.  I believe this has to do with the <a href="https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/13377/tar-extraction-depends-on-filename">colon in filename</a> but how can I change that in the knife or chef preferences?  </p>