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@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ changed while being read. Previous versions exited with code 2 (fatal
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error), and only if some files were truncated while being archived.
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* New option --mtime allows to set modification times for all archive
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-members during creation.
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+members during creation.
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* Bug fixes
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** Avoid running off file descriptors when using multiple -C options.
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@@ -34,14 +34,14 @@ no longer uses globbing by default. For example, the above invocation
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is now interpreted as a request to extract from the archive the file
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named '*.c'.
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-To treat member names as globbing patterns, use --wildcards option.
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+To treat member names as globbing patterns, use --wildcards option.
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If you wish tar to mimic the behavior of versions up to 1.15.90,
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add --wildcards to the value of the environment variable TAR_OPTIONS.
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The exact way in which tar interprets member names is controlled by the
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following command line options:
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- --wildcards use wildcards
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+ --wildcards use wildcards
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--anchored patterns match file name start
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--ignore-case ignore case
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--wildcards-match-slash wildcards match `/'
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@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ following command line options:
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Each of these options has a '--no-' counterpart that disables its
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effect (e.g. --no-wildcards).
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-These options affect both the interpretation of member names from
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+These options affect both the interpretation of member names from
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command line and that of the exclusion patterns (given with --exclude
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and --exclude-from options). The defaults are:
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@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ case-sensitive matching for the rest of command line, one could write:
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** Short option -l is now an alias of --check-links option, which complies
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with UNIX98. This ends the transition period started with version 1.14.
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* New features
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** New option --transform allows to transform file names before storing them
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@@ -80,19 +80,19 @@ will add 'prefix/' to all file names stored in foo.tar.
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versions it worked only with --extract.
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** New option --show-transformed-names enables display of transformed file
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-or archive. It generalizes --show-stored-names option, introduced in
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-1.15.90. In particular, when creating an archive in verbose mode, it lists
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+or archive. It generalizes --show-stored-names option, introduced in
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+1.15.90. In particular, when creating an archive in verbose mode, it lists
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member names as stored in the archive, i.e., with any eventual prefixes
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removed and file name transformations applied. The option is useful,
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for example, while comparing `tar cv' and `tar tv' outputs.
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-** New incremental snapshot file format keeps information about file names
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+** New incremental snapshot file format keeps information about file names
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as well as that about directories.
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** The --checkpoint option takes an optional argument specifying the number
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of records between the two successive checkpoints. Optional dot
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starting the argument intructs tar to print dots instead of textual
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-checkpoints.
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+checkpoints.
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** The --totals option can be used with any tar operation (previous versions
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understood it only with --create). If an argument to this option is
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