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- From: zzsb@kursix.rrzn.uni-hannover.de (Wolfgang Sander-Beuermann)
- Subject: Re: quest about tar
- Message-ID: <1993Jan12.122843.26801@newsserver.rrzn.uni-hannover.de>
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- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 12:28:43 GMT
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- >> tar -xvf myarchive.tar
- >
- > Christ, I hope it is without a dash
- >
- > tar xvf my...
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- dash or not does usually not matter, most tar's accept <tar -xvf>
- _and_ <tar xvf>.
-
- BUT: it does matter, wether *you* have the owner (and group) rights
- of the untared files, or someone else, so better use:
-
- tar -xovf myarchive.tar # o is important
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- Wolfgang Sander-Beuermann zzsb@kursix.rrzn.uni-hannover.de
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