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<p>Created page with &quot;== Don&#039;t Preserver Owner == Problem: &lt;blockquote&gt; I&#039;d like to compress some files for http distribution, but found that .tar.gz keeps the user name and user ID and there does...&quot;</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>== Don&#039;t Preserver Owner ==<br /> <br /> Problem:<br /> &lt;blockquote&gt;<br /> I&#039;d like to compress some files for http distribution, but found that .tar.gz keeps the user name and user ID and there doesn&#039;t seem to be any way to not do that? (There is a --numeric-owner option for tar which seems to ignore the user name, but still keeps the user ID.)<br /> <br /> Doesn&#039;t that mean that .tar.gz is a poor choice for file distribution as my system probably is the only one with my user ID and my user name? Is .7z a better format for file distribution, or do you have any other recommendation?<br /> &lt;/blockquote&gt;<br /> <br /> Solution:<br /> &lt;blockquote&gt;<br /> Generally .tar.gz is a usable file distribution format. GNU tar allows you to replace owner, group and permissions with other values when adding files to the archive.<br /> &lt;/blockquote&gt;<br /> <br /> tar -c -f archive.tar --owner=0 --group=0 .<br /> <br /> Ref: tar without preserving user - Unix &amp; Linux Stack Exchange - https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/285237/tar-without-preserving-user</div>

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