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lapthorn 03-18-2005 09:46 AM
tar overwriting symbolic links
 
Using GNU tar, symbolic links are overwritten by files in the archive. I need to get tar to extract a tar file and follow symbolic links.

Is there anywau to protect the linked file so that tar can't overwrite it?

CARTMAN 03-18-2005 01:25 PM
Try tar --dereference . man tar for more info.


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