Re: Numbers Ownership after tarring

[Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Mark Sargent wrote:
> Paul Howarth wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 2005-04-13 at 17:10 +0900, Mark Sargent wrote:
> >  
> >
> > > Hi All,
> > >
> > > why, when either using, tar --directory=dirpath -xzvf tarfilepath or 
> > > tar -xzvf tarfilepath the owner ship is like below,
> > >
> > > drwxr-xr-x   7 52400 24067 4.0K Mar  4 20:24 phpMyAdmin-2.6.1-pl3
> > >
> > > The downloaded files are saved in the dir, downloads, by the general 
> > > user, coolboarderguy. Cheers.
> > >   
> >
> >
> > Those are the UID and GID of the original directory on the system that
> > the tarball was created on.
> >
> > If you extract the tarball as a regular user instead of as root, you'll
> > own the files and directories yourself.
> >
> > Paul
> >  
> Hi All,
>
> ok, but, if I want root or another ownership of the extracted file(s), 
> rather than the original owner, can I add that in the tar command, or I 
> can only do that with the chown command after extracting ..? Cheers.

Just use chown.

Paul.