Re: [Bug-tar] Symlink Feature Request

[Joerg Schilling]

David Stern <address@hidden> wrote:

> There have been times when I would have liked to send out an archive to
> users that contains a symlink to a file that isn't located in the archive.
> This symlink, once copied to the system, will point to an actual file.  My
> feature request is that there is a command-line option to forget about
> broken symlinks in the archive and to unpack them anyway.  This would be a
> simple addition, and would probably be helpful in a wide variety of
> situations.

I am not sure about what you like.

Shouldn't every tar implementation by default behave the way you like?

Jörg

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