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== Documentation ==
There is a '''lot''' more option information in the <code>tar --help</code> output
than in the man page.  The "info" manual is also online at http://www.gnu.org/software/tar/manual/tar.html providing full documentation for tar.
I'll have to test  --keep-newer-files to see if that works.


== Alternatives ==
== Alternatives ==