Numbers Ownership after tarring

[Mark Sargent]

Paul Howarth wrote:

>On Wed, 2005-04-13 at 17:10 +0900, Mark Sargent wrote:
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>>Hi All,
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>>why, when either using, tar --directory=dirpath -xzvf tarfilepath or tar 
>>-xzvf tarfilepath the owner ship is like below,
>>
>>drwxr-xr-x   7 52400 24067 4.0K Mar  4 20:24 phpMyAdmin-2.6.1-pl3
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>>The downloaded files are saved in the dir, downloads, by the general 
>>user, coolboarderguy. Cheers.
>>    
>>
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>Those are the UID and GID of the original directory on the system that
>the tarball was created on.
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>If you extract the tarball as a regular user instead of as root, you'll
>own the files and directories yourself.
>
>Paul
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Hi All,

ok, but, if I want root or another ownership of the extracted file(s), 
rather than the original owner, can I add that in the tar command, or I 
can only do that with the chown command after extracting ..? Cheers.

Mark Sargent.