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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users tar: how to preserve atime? (also on extracted version, not just original) Post 302268023 by frankie06 on Sunday 14th of December 2008 10:29:35 PM
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Originally Posted by frank_rizzo
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
 

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file-roller(1)						      General Commands Manual						    file-roller(1)

NAME
file-roller - archive manager for GNOME SYNOPSIS
file-roller [OPTIONS...] [FILE...] DESCRIPTION
File Roller is a graphical interface to archiving utilities such as tar and zip. It supports most common operations such as creating, modifing and extracting files from an archive. You can also view the contents of an archive and open files contained in the archive. OPTIONS
-a, --add-to=ARCHIVE Add files to the specified archive and quit the program -d, --add FILE Add files asking the name of the archive and quit the program -e, --extract-to=FOLDER Extract archives to the specified folder and quit the program -f, --extract Extract archives asking the destination folder and quit the program -h, --extract-here Extract archives using the archive name as destination folder and quit the program --default-dir=FOLDER Default folder to use for the '--add' and '--extract' commands --force Create destination folder without asking confirmation This program also accepts the standard GNOME and GTK options. AUTHORS
file-roller is written by Paolo Bacchilega <paolo.bacch@tin.it>. This manual page was written by Sven Arvidsson <sa@whiz.se>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others). SEE ALSO
gtk-options(7), gnome-options(7) The online documentation available through the program's Help menu. GNOME
2007-09-27 file-roller(1)
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