Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84 SMI; site sun.uucp Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!genrad!decvax!decwrl!sun!gnu From: gnu@sun.uucp (John Gilmore) Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Subject: Re: Need help preserving permissions when using tar? Message-ID: <2424@sun.uucp> Date: Tue, 16-Jul-85 05:28:20 EDT Article-I.D.: sun.2424 Posted: Tue Jul 16 05:28:20 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 18-Jul-85 06:00:36 EDT References: <495@men1.UUCP> Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc. Lines: 6 > 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.