Numbers Ownership after tarring

[Mark Sargent]

Paul Howarth wrote:

> 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.
>
Hi All,

ok, but, it's a bit redundant, isn't it. Cheers.

Mark Sargent.