Hi Helmut, Thanks a lot for the detailed descriprion in your letter. It does, unfortunately, contain an initial misinterpretation of options --keep-newer-files, --overwrite and --unlink-first: namely, all the three options are *mutually exclusive*, i.e. it is senseless to use any two of them in a single invocation, since the option that occurs in the command line last will disable all previous ones.
In other words, running tar --keep-newer-files --overwrite ... actually means that only --overwrite is in effect. Regards, Sergey _______________________________________________ Bug-tar mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-tar
