Numbers Ownership after tarring

[Mark Sargent]

Paul Howarth wrote:

>On Thu, 2005-04-14 at 13:25 +0900, Mark Sargent wrote:
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>>Paul Howarth wrote:
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>>>>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.
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>>>Just use chown.
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>>>Paul.
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>>Hi All,
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>>ok, but, it's a bit redundant, isn't it. Cheers.
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>No, it would be redundant if tar provided a way to do this in addition
>to the option you have of using chown.
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>The Unix/Linux philosophy has always been to write small, specialised
>tools to do specific jobs, and then use scripting tools to "glue" them
>together to do bigger, more complex tasks.
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>chown is the specialised tool for changing ownership of files and tar is
>the specialised tool for handling archives. It's good that they're
>separate. If you want a facility to do both at the same time, how about
>writing a script that uses tar to extract the files and then uses chown
>to change the ownership of the files?
>
>Paul.
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Hi All,

ok, Paul, I hear ya, mate. Your knowledge is far greater than mine, so I 
won't dispute ya. As to the writing of a script, heck, who knows, 
perhaps I might just do it, one day..hehe..actually, only yesterday I 
bought a bash scripting book, so look out Linux world, here I 
come..hehe...lol..cheers.

Mark Sargent.