On Sun, Oct 03, 2004 at 07:33:04PM -0700, Jeff Chimene wrote: > > --- Rajesh Menon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > As far as I know, if you operate on the symlink, you > > are operating on > > the files/dir that it points to. Unlike hard links, > > which are actual > > copies of the link pointed to. > > And if I recall right, tar's behaviour, by default, > > is to over-write the > > destination. > > > > tar -xzf archive.tar.gz => it's going to create > > (overwrite) a folder 'source' and dump the output in > > there. > > Thank you for the reply! I think that I clobbered the > symlink - i.e. the original files are in the original > directory. The symlink got replaced by the actual > directory. > > Is there a way for tar to follow the symlink, or am I > supposed to be writing into the linked directory? > > Cheers, > Jeff Chimene >
In my test, I used -h option only for creating .tgz file My untar did -not- have -h option and yet the files that were in the .tgz file were placed by following the symlink. I appears that you only need -h when you are creating. So, this is not likely explanation of what happened to you. But, again, maybe Red Hat tar behaves differently. -- Paul E Condon [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
