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Does tar -xvf remove existing files from directory?

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Mar 15, 202628712 views
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I have a tar archive and I want to use . In this tar archive I have a directory tree containing a couple of files. On my solaris 10 system this directory tree already exists and has several files in it. If i unpack the archive is the entire directory tree overwritten or are only the files contained…

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tar -xvf

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Duplicate files that already exist may or may not be unpacked and overwritten depending on your system. However, it usually does by default. Files that are in the archive but not on your system will simply be added to new or existing directories on …

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