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Old 12-14-2008
frankie06 frankie06 is offline
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Originally Posted by frank_rizzo View Post
can you add --atime-preserve when you do the extract?
Sure. Same result. Files are as in previous shell log.

$ rm destination/bla*
$ cd destination/
$ tar --atime-preserve -xvpf archive.tar
bla1
bla2
$ ls -lt b*
-rw-r--r-- 1 dsilt2 dsilt2 4 2008-12-15 03:52 bla2
-rw-r--r-- 1 dsilt2 dsilt2 4 2007-07-07 22:22 bla1
$ ls -ltu b*
-rw-r--r-- 1 dsilt2 dsilt2 4 2008-12-15 04:22 bla1
-rw-r--r-- 1 dsilt2 dsilt2 4 2008-12-15 04:22 bla2