() Norbert Preining <prein...@logic.at> () Sun, 17 Nov 2013 08:44:43 +0900
> So -p is more than just "preserve modification time"?!?
At least on my GNU tar ...
-p, --preserve-permissions, --same-permissions
extract information about file permissions (default for superuser)
;-)
> That's a new one on me.
One never stops learning.
Indeed!
Perhaps OP got confused by ‘cp -p’, which has similar but not identical
meaning. I use that sometimes for hand-rolled (Automake-less) "make
dist" target (prep phase). I was ignorant of ‘tar -p’ until just now.
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