restore tar archives with different uid?

[Thomas Omerzu]

In article <1740 at yenta.alb.nm.us> dt at yenta.alb.nm.us (David B. Thomas) writes:

>Is there a way to restore a tar archive, but force all the files
>thus created to be owned by you?

Well David,

that depends on the version of 'tar' you're using.
A BSD-based tar does do that by default, whereas an ATT-tar
has got the 'o'-option.

TFM reads:
          o       Causes extracted files to take on the user and group
                  identifier of the user running the program rather
                  than those on the tape.



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