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Re: [Bug-tar] --keep-newer-files problem
From: |
Sergey Poznyakoff |
Subject: |
Re: [Bug-tar] --keep-newer-files problem |
Date: |
Thu, 21 Feb 2008 16:45:28 +0200 |
Elwood C. Downey <address@hidden> 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