[ale] tar and usernames

[Dan Newcombe]

Gee...silly my doing something like man tar

I must bet getting dumb, looking at the system manual pages for help.

Thanks for the info.

On 28 Aug 2001, Fletch wrote:

> >>>>> "Dan" == Dan Newcombe <Newcombe at mordor.clayton.edu> writes:
> 
> 
> [...]
> 
>     Dan> Is there a way to have tar just backup the uid/gid without
>     Dan> trying to also store user/group name?
> 
> lemur:~ 411> tar --help | grep user
>       --numeric-owner          always use numbers for user/group names
> 
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