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Most of you will never need to know this, but someday someone will search google and find this and thank the lazyweb that I wrote them down. Non-nerds can scroll to the bottom for Sad Kermit. Unix: TAR and file permissions Use the P flag dummy When you un-archive a file using tar use the -p switch to preserve the original file permissions and ownership. That way when your FTP process runs to get the next day files and you forgot to delete the file you unarchived your FTP process won’t die because it gets a file permission error and then ruins everybody’s daily financial report from your fortune 200 company. And if you remember to do this you won’t have …

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