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Can we instruct tar to do not keep modified time of the files in archive file while compress.
What I want is, the extracted directories/files should get time from machine where it's extracting, not from the archive file. But I want to get it done in compression part, not in extraction part with -m.
tar always stores the modification time of the files it puts into the archive.
If you like to get the current time of extraction while extracting the archive, the only way to achieve this is to use
tar xm < xxx.tar
at extraction time.
--mtimeto force the stored mtimes to a specific value. I don't think there's an option to avoid storing it altogether.tarhas no option--mtimeIf you refer to vendor specific options, you should mention which vendor specific implementation you refer to.