Re: tar extract option to keep newer files?

ynotssor wrote:
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> "Ron Hardin" <rhhardin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> > Is there a tar xf option to keep disk files newer than the archive
> > version?
> ...
> > On the internet, nobody knows you're a jerk.
>
> Unless you fail to read the man page.

My reading was that there isn't. But that seems unlikely, so the question
is where am I misreading it, or isn't there one?

There's one for adding to the archive, but as far as I see, not one
for extracting from the archive.

I could be misreading it. Hence the question.

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Ron Hardin
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