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From: s887212@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au (Stephen Riehm [Romulis])
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: How do you unarchive with TAR?
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Date: 18 Nov 90 03:18:36 GMT
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gordon@osiris.cso.uiuc.edu (John Gordon) writes:


>	To un-tar a file, type "tar -xvf <filename>".

very dangerous practice!!! considering that the tar was created by someone
else on a different machine.. it should be mandatory to use -o (ownership)
flag. I learnt this the hard way some time back when I untarred a directory
without -o and the creator only had permission set to himself, hence I
couldnt touch the files at all.. couldnt even remove the evidence :-)
SYSOPs can be wonderfull people at times :-)

therefor I recommend:
tar -xfvo <filename>

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