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Re: [Bug-tar] failure setting directory modtime/permissions
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Paul Eggert |
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Re: [Bug-tar] failure setting directory modtime/permissions |
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Wed, 20 Oct 2004 14:54:18 -0700 |
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address@hidden (Paul Jarc) writes:
> Earlier versions of GNU tar, such as 1.13.25, did not fail in this
> case. Solaris tar also does not fail. Is there a portable way to
> invoke tar to avoid this failure? Or can this behavior be changed
> back to match 1.13.25 for the next version?
Doesn't --no-overwrite-dir do what you want?
If so, you could write something like this, in a portable script:
if tar --no-overwrite-dir --version >/dev/null 2>&1; then
tar='tar --no-overwrite-dir'
else
tar=tar
esac