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From: chad@anasaz.UUCP (Chad R. Larson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: restore tar archives with different uid?
Message-ID: <2932@anasaz.UUCP>
Date: 25 Aug 90 07:23:27 GMT
References: <1740@yenta.alb.nm.us>
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In article <1740@yenta.alb.nm.us> dt@yenta.alb.nm.us (David B. Thomas) writes:
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| Is there a way to restore a tar archive, but force all the files
| thus created to be owned by you?
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Well, you don't tell which version of tar you are playing with (DOS? SysV?
BSD?), but it sure sounds like a RTFM question to me.

SysVr3.2 TAR(1) partial extract, speaking of key arguments:

    "o" - Causes the extracted files to assume the owner and group ID
	  of the user running the program rather than those on the
	  archive tape.
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