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From: berg@marvin.e17.physik.tu-muenchen.de (Stephen R. van den Berg)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: untar or restore only newer files? Impossible?
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Date: 15 Apr 91 14:43:46 GMT
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Is it somehow possible to untar from a tar archive only files
that are newer than the ones on disk?  Have I missed some obscure options?

Is it possible with GNU-tar?
--
Sincerely,                 berg@marvin.e17.physik.tu-muenchen.de
           Stephen R. van den Berg.
"I code it in 5 min, optimize it in 90 min, because it's so well optimized:
it runs in only 5 min.  Actually, most of the time I optimize programs."