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Date:      Fri, 9 Oct 2009 02:07:21 -0400
From:      jhell <jhell@DataIX.net>
To:        Matthias Apitz <guru@unixarea.de>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: tar --unlink ?
Message-ID:  <alpine.BSF.2.00.0910090206530.10588@qvzrafvba.5c.ybpny>
In-Reply-To: <20091009055817.GA2420@current.Sisis.de>
References:  <20091009055817.GA2420@current.Sisis.de>

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On Fri, 9 Oct 2009 07:58 +0200, guru@ wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> To move a file tree from one place to another I see as an example:
>
> # tar -cf - local | tar --unlink -xpf - -C /mnt
>
> What does '--unlink' do exactly? I can't see it in the man page of
> tar(1). Thanks in advance
>
> 	matthias
>

man 2 unlink

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