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@@ -38,10 +38,21 @@ it lists member names as stored in the archive, i.e., with any eventual
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prefixes removed. The option is useful, for example, while comparing
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`tar cv' and `tar tv' outputs.
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+* New option --to-command pipes the contents of archive members to the
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+specified command.
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* New option --atime-preserve=system, which uses the O_NOATIME feature
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of recent Linux kernels to avoid some problems when preserving file
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access times.
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+* New option --restrict prohibits use of some potentially harmful tar
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+options. Currently it disables '!' escape in multi-volume name menu.
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+
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+* The end-of-volume script (introduced with --info-script option) can
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+get current archive name from the environment variable TAR_ARCHIVE and
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+the volume number from the variable TAR_VOLUME. It can alter the
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+archive name by writing new name to the file descriptor 3.
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* Better support for full-resolution time stamps. Tar cannot restore
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time stamps to full nanosecond resolution, though, until the kernel
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guys get their act together and give us a system call to set file time
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Sergey Poznyakoff