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[Bug-tar] --no-overwrite-dir implies that tar will overwrite files when


From: Remi Broemeling
Subject: [Bug-tar] --no-overwrite-dir implies that tar will overwrite files when extracting?
Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2015 15:35:45 -0600

Hi all -- have run into this bit of weirdness today, and I was hoping someone here could either confirm it as a bug or tell me how I am utterly confused about how these options function.  My intent is to extract an archive onto the local system and to never overwrite or otherwise modify existing files (i.e. to "fill in the blanks" onto the local system by extracting missing files out of an archive).

I'm attempting to do this with a command like this: 


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Remi Broemeling
System Administrator
Clio - Practice Management Simplified


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