[NCLUG] tar questions

Sean Reifschneider jafo-nclug at tummy.com
Fri Jul 26 17:21:53 MDT 2002


On Fri, Jul 26, 2002 at 05:03:29PM +0100, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
>a file called brasm already exists in the current directory.  tar is declining to overwrite it.  maybe it's not owned by them?

Perhaps.  Or, perhaps it exists and is writable by that user, but they
didn't specify "--overwrite" as an option to tar, which tells it to write
over files that already exist.

Sean
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