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Keep Old Files

--keep-old-files

-k

Do not overwrite existing files from archive. The --keep-old-files (-k) option prevents tar from over-writing existing files with files with the same name from the archive. The --keep-old-files (-k) option is meaningless with --list (-t). Prevents tar from overwriting files in the file system during extraction.