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From: gnu@sun.uucp (John Gilmore)
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Subject: Re: Need help preserving permissions when using tar?
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Date: Tue, 16-Jul-85 05:28:20 EDT
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> Does anyone know of a way to preserve file and directory permissions
> and ownerships when using tar?

The tar in 4.2bsd (and maybe other Berkeley releases) puts directory
permissions into the tar file and creates the directories with those
permissions when you read the tar file.