(tar)Attributes Options

Type Options

Format Control

Format Control

Handling of file attributes
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   Handling of file attributes

`--atime-preserve'
     Do not change access times on dumped files.

`-m'
`--modification-time'
     Do not extract file modified time.

     When this option is used, `tar' leaves the modification times of
     the files it extracts as the time when the files were extracted,
     instead of setting it to the time recorded in the archive.

     This option is meaningless with `--list' (`-t').

`--same-owner'
     Create extracted files with the same ownership.

`-p'
`--same-permissions'
`--preserve-permissions'
     Extract all protection information.

     This option causes `tar' to set the modes (access permissions) of
     extracted files exactly as recorded in the archive.  If this option
     is not used, the current `umask' setting limits the permissions on
     extracted files.

     This option is meaningless with `--list' (`-t').

`-s'
`--same-order'
`--preserve-order'
     Sort names to extract to match archive.

     This option tells `tar' that the list of file names to be listed
     or extracted is sorted in the same order as the files in the
     archive.  This allows a large list of names to be used, even on a
     small machine that would not otherwise be able to hold all the
     names in memory at the same time.  Such a sorted list can easily
     be created by running `tar -t' on the archive and editing its
     output.

     This option is probably never needed on modern computer systems.

`--preserve'
     Same as both `--same-permissions' (`-p') and `--same-order' (`-s').

     The `--preserve' option has no equivalent short option name.  It
     is equivalent to `--same-permissions' (`-p') plus `--same-order'
     (`-s').