Wait. Do I have to explicitly specify every dir in each file's path when selecting a subset of files in a tarball?
On Sat, 19 Nov 2016 19:57:14 -0500 "Neal P. Murphy" <neal.p.mur...@alum.wpi.edu> wrote: > tar v1.28. Just spent all day trying to figure out why tar refuses to extract > files with the same permissions as in the tarball. > > In the tarball, ./tmp has mode 1777. Extracting the files as root with or > without option --same-permissions yields the desired result: the extracted > dir tmp has mode 1777. > > Alas, option -T (--files-from, used to get a list of files to restore from a > file) turns on --no-same-permissions. I've found no way around it; I think > it's a bug. > > In short, if I use -T to supply a list of files to restore from a file, tar > fails to correctly restore the files (in my case, it fails to restore the > correct mode). >
