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.
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