Setting Access Permissions

To set the modes (access permissions) of extracted files to those recorded for those files in the archive, use ‘--same-permissions’ in conjunction with the ‘--extract’ (‘--get’, ‘-x’) operation.

‘--preserve-permissions’

‘--same-permissions’

‘-p’

Set modes of extracted archive members to those recorded in the archive, instead of current umask settings. Use in conjunction with ‘--extract’ (‘--get’, ‘-x’).

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