Re: restoring a tar archive && modification time of directories
Date: Thu, 01 May 2025 18:33:34 UTC
I can reproduce the problem with: $ rm -r d $ mkdir d $ touch -t 202504300101 d/file d $ ls -ld d d/file drwxr-xr-x 2 guru wheel 512 30 abr. 01:01 d -rw-r--r-- 1 guru wheel 0 30 abr. 01:01 d/file $ tar cf d.tar d (without deleting the directory 'd') $ tar xf d.tar $ ls -ld d d/file drwxr-xr-x 2 guru wheel 512 1 may. 20:25 d -rw-r--r-- 1 guru wheel 0 30 abr. 01:01 d/file i.e. if the directories are existing (as it was in my original case restoring into my HOME a backup), the modification time of the directory will not be adjusted to the value in the tar archive. One could call this a bug or a feature. Don't know. matthias -- Matthias Apitz, ✉ guru@unixarea.de, http://www.unixarea.de/ +49-176-38902045 Public GnuPG key: http://www.unixarea.de/key.pub An die deutsche Bundesregierung: Nein, meine Söhne geb' ich nicht für Ihren Krieg! Al Gobierno alemán: ¡No, no doy mis hijos para su guerra! To the German Government: No, I will not give my sons for your war!