Sergey Poznyakoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >Helmut Waitzmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> 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. -- Wenn Sie mir E-Mail schreiben, stellen | When writing me e-mail, please Sie bitte vor meine E-Mail-Adresse | precede my e-mail address with meinen Vor- und Nachnamen, etwa so: | my full name, like Helmut Waitzmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, (Helmut Waitzmann) [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Bug-tar mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-tar
