12-14-2008
Quote:
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
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-d, --add FILE
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-e, --extract-to=FOLDER
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-f, --extract
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-h, --extract-here
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--default-dir=FOLDER
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--force
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AUTHORS
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This manual page was written by Sven Arvidsson <sa@whiz.se>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others).
SEE ALSO
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The online documentation available through the program's Help menu.
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