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Date: Fri, 9 Oct 2009 09:26:03 +0200
From: Matthias Apitz <guru@unixarea.de>
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Subject: Re: tar --unlink ?
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El día Friday, October 09, 2009 a las 01:52:45AM -0500, Dan Nelson escribió:

> > I know the unlink(2) sys call, but what does this --unlink flag in tar(1)
> > on restore (-x)?
> 
> It's the same as the -U option, provided for gnutar compatibility.

Dan,
Thanks for your helping answer. Maybe someone with commit right should
make a note in the manpage of tar(1). Thanks

	matthias

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