tar -x without clobbering directories
Tom Buskey
tom at buskey.name
Tue May 5 17:21:43 EDT 2009
On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 1:30 PM, Greg Rundlett (freephile) <
greg at freephile.com> wrote:
>
> I kept checking The Google for answers, and found another Tape Archive
> program called S-tar which apparently does exactly what I was trying
> to do: namely not clobber existing directories in an intelligent
> manner. Looking at the project page, and man page, it has a large
> number of useful features. Anyone use it?
>
> http://freshmeat.net/projects/star/
>
>
I've used star before. It's from the creator of cdrecord and has been
around for awhile. There are situations where it picks up ACLs that GNU tar
doesn't.
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