Tar question...
david nicol
whatever at davidnicol.com
Tue Oct 14 19:35:46 CDT 2003
there's the --no-same-owner option listed in the --help which causes
extracted files to be extracted as yourself, but I'm sure you know that
already. I've often thought that a tool that mounts a tar archive like
a file system would be very useful, if it existed it would work for
this purpose.
I think the "Norton Commander" and clones (Midnight commander, etc)
can do this -- treat a tar as a file system. Google search for
"mount a tar archive like a file system" found this comparison of
graphical file managers,
http://www.icewalkers.com/Linux/Software/System/Files/File-Managers/1900/
including Xnc which looks like it might be your tool.
On Mon, 2003-10-13 at 13:49, Matt G wrote:
> Hey Guys:
>
> I have a whole bunch of tar files that contain files with incorrect owners
> and/or groups. I want to change the owners/groups of the all of these files
> without having to untar, change, tar them back. Does anyone know if this is
> possible / how to go about it?
>
> Thanks,
> Matt
>
>
>
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