[NCLUG] tar questions

[Sean Reifschneider]

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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