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Handling of file attributes

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Handling of file attributes

--atime-preserve

Do not change access times on dumped files.

-m

--modification-time

Do not extract file modified time.

When this option is used, tar leaves the modification times of the files it extracts as the time when the files were extracted, instead of setting it to the time recorded in the archive.

This option is meaningless with `--list' (`-t').

--same-owner

Create extracted files with the same ownership.

-p

--same-permissions

--preserve-permissions

Extract all protection information.

This option causes tar to set the modes (access permissions) of extracted files exactly as recorded in the archive. If this option is not used, the current umask setting limits the permissions on extracted files.

This option is meaningless with `--list' (`-t').

-s

--same-order

--preserve-order

Sort names to extract to match archive.

This option tells tar that the list of file names to be listed or extracted is sorted in the same order as the files in the archive. This allows a large list of names to be used, even on a small machine that would not otherwise be able to hold all the names in memory at the same time. Such a sorted list can easily be created by running `tar -t' on the archive and editing its output.

This option is probably never needed on modern computer systems.

--preserve

Same as both `--same-permissions' (`-p') and `--same-order' (`-s').

The `--preserve' option has no equivalent short option name. It is equivalent to `--same-permissions' (`-p') plus `--same-order' (`-s').

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