Elwood C. Downey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ha escrit: > I have a directory that contains some files. I have a tar file that > contains many of the same files but not all and some are newer and > some are older than the existing files. For files that exist both > already and in the tar, I want to replace only the ones from the tar > that are newer than the existing files. I use --keep-newer-files for > this and it works fine /except/ if the file does not already exist > then it is not restored at all. I would expect that if the file does > not already exist it can not be newer and so the file would be > created.
Please try a newer version of tar. This bug has been fixed in version 1.16. The latest stable version is 1.19. Regards, Sergey
