Re: [Bug-tar] keep newer files bug?

[Helmut Waitzmann]

Sergey Poznyakoff <address@hidden> writes:

>--keep-newer-files, --overwrite and --unlink-first: namely, all the
>three options are *mutually exclusive*, i.e. it is senseless to
>use any two of them in a single invocation, since the option that occurs
>in the command line last will disable all previous ones.

So, what will tar --keep-newer-files -x do, if the archive member to be
extracted is newer than the file in the filesystem?

Will it

[ ] unlink the file and create an new one or
[ ] overwrite the file without unlinking?
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