Hello! There is an archive packed with tar -cpvf which needs to be unpacked into a directory that already contains some of the files from the archive. Question: How to unpack it without replacing the files that are already in the directory?

  • The option is quite obvious - --keep-old-files . More options - gbg
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 man tar -k, --keep-old-files don't replace existing files when extracting,

    Judging by man tar , you need the -k(--keep-old-files) switch -k(--keep-old-files)

    -k, --keep-old-files saves existing files and does not overlap them when extracting archive objects

    Those. the call will be

     tar xfkv archive.tar /path/to/extract/

    Script to check:

     #!/bin/bash # читаем справку #man tar # Создаем директорию для теста mkdir tmp mkdir tmp/dir # наполняем файлами touch tmp/file0.txt touch tmp/file1.txt touch tmp/dir/file0.txt # создаем архив tar cf tmp.tar tmp # удалим часть файлов rm tmp/file0.txt # распакуем без замены tar xfkv tmp.tar