On Sunday 27 June 2004 11:43, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>
> again, i can't just assume that all of the directories in the
> tarball already exist on the system. dang. i was really after the
> hypothetical tar option "do *not* screw with the attributes of
> existing objects." i don't think i'm going to find it.
>
> rday
Will this offer any help?
`--no-same-permissions'
When extracting an archive, subtract the user's umask from files
from the permissions specified in the archive. This is the
default behavior for ordinary users; this option has an effect
only for the superuser.
Regards, Mike Klinke
