Hi
In TAR documentation it states that -keep-old-files (-k) will flag an
error if a file already exists :
To be even more cautious and prevent existing files from being replaced,
use the '--keep-old-files' ('-k') option. It causes tar to refuse to
replace
or update a file that already exists, i.e., a file with the same name as
an
archive member prevents extraction of that archive member. Instead, it
reports an error.
How ever, neither a warning message or exit code indicates that such an
error occurred.
Cheers
Gary Partis
