David Stern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> There have been times when I would have liked to send out an archive to
> users that contains a symlink to a file that isn't located in the archive.
> This symlink, once copied to the system, will point to an actual file. My
> feature request is that there is a command-line option to forget about
> broken symlinks in the archive and to unpack them anyway. This would be a
> simple addition, and would probably be helpful in a wide variety of
> situations.
I am not sure about what you like.
Shouldn't every tar implementation by default behave the way you like?
Jörg
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