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Re: [Bug-tar] keep newer files bug?
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Helmut Waitzmann |
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Re: [Bug-tar] keep newer files bug? |
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Wed, 25 May 2005 14:46:48 +0200 |
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Sergey Poznyakoff <address@hidden> writes:
>Helmut Waitzmann <address@hidden> wrote:
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>> So, what will tar --keep-newer-files -x do, if the archive member to be
>> extracted is newer than the file in the filesystem?
>It will unlink the old file and create a new one.
So it's impossible to let
$ tar --keep-newer-files -x ...
overwrite old files rather than unlink and recreate them? This is what I
hoped,
$ --overwrite --keep-newer-files -x ...
would do.
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