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Date:      Fri, 9 Oct 2009 07:58:17 +0200
From:      Matthias Apitz <guru@unixarea.de>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   tar --unlink ?
Message-ID:  <20091009055817.GA2420@current.Sisis.de>

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Hello,

To move a file tree from one place to another I see as an example:

# tar -cf - local | tar --unlink -xpf - -C /mnt

What does '--unlink' do exactly? I can't see it in the man page of
tar(1). Thanks in advance

	matthias
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