Numbers Ownership after tarring

[Paul Howarth]

Mark Sargent wrote:
> Paul Howarth wrote:
> 
>> On Wed, 2005-04-13 at 17:10 +0900, Mark Sargent wrote:
>>  
>>
>>> Hi All,
>>>
>>> why, when either using, tar --directory=dirpath -xzvf tarfilepath or 
>>> tar -xzvf tarfilepath the owner ship is like below,
>>>
>>> drwxr-xr-x   7 52400 24067 4.0K Mar  4 20:24 phpMyAdmin-2.6.1-pl3
>>>
>>> The downloaded files are saved in the dir, downloads, by the general 
>>> user, coolboarderguy. Cheers.
>>>   
>>
>>
>> Those are the UID and GID of the original directory on the system that
>> the tarball was created on.
>>
>> If you extract the tarball as a regular user instead of as root, you'll
>> own the files and directories yourself.
>>
>> Paul
>>  
>>
> Hi All,
> 
> ok, but, if I want root or another ownership of the extracted file(s), 
> rather than the original owner, can I add that in the tar command, or I 
> can only do that with the chown command after extracting ..? Cheers.

Just use chown.

Paul.