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<h2><a name="untar">Untar</a></h2>
<h3>Description</h3>
<p>Untars a tarfile.</p>
<p><strong>Note: </strong>File permissions will not be restored on extracted files.</p>
<p>For JDK 1.1 &quot;last modified time&quot; field is set to current time instead of being
carried from tarfile.</p>
<p>The untar task recognizes the long pathname entries used by GNU tar.</p>
<h3>Parameters</h3>
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<td valign="top"><b>Attribute</b></td>
<td valign="top"><b>Description</b></td>
<td align="center" valign="top"><b>Required</b></td>
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<td valign="top">src</td>
<td valign="top">tarfile to expand.</td>
<td align="center" valign="top">Yes</td>
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<td valign="top">dest</td>
<td valign="top">directory where to store the expanded files.</td>
<td align="center" valign="top">Yes</td>
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<td valign="top">overwrite</td>
<td valign="top">Overwrite files, even if they are newer than the
corresponding entries in the archive (true or false, default is
true).</td>
<td align="center" valign="top">No</td>
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<h3>Examples</h3>
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<p><code>
&lt;gunzip src=&quot;tools.tar.gz&quot;/&gt;<br>
&lt;untar src=&quot;tools.tar&quot; dest=&quot;${tools.home}&quot;/&gt;
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