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Archive maintaining the user IDs and file permissions:
Archive maintaining the user IDs and file permissions:


  tar -cfvsp .../archive.tar *
  tar -cvspf .../archive.tar *
 
Note that the name of the archive file to be created must ''immediately'' follow -f, without any interceding parameters.

Revision as of 03:41, 17 April 2018

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Options

Archival

When tar is executed as root, the file permissions and owner are preserved.

-p

Preserve permissions, default when the root executes the command.

-s

Preserve order (same order). Sort names to extract to match archive.

Archive

Archive maintaining the user IDs and file permissions:

tar -cvspf .../archive.tar *

Note that the name of the archive file to be created must immediately follow -f, without any interceding parameters.