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@@ -34,11 +34,13 @@ version 1.13.26
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with previous releases, however such usage is strongly deprecated as
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the option will change to its UNIX98 semantics in the future releases.
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-* New option --first-copy can be used in conjunction with one of
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+* New option --occurrence[=N] can be used in conjunction with one of
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the subcommands --delete, --diff, --extract or --list when a list of
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files is given either on the command line or via -T option. This
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- option instructs tar to terminate when all of the filenames from
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- the list were processed.
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+ option instructs tar to process only the Nth occurence of each named
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+ file. N defaults to 1, so `tar -x -f archive --occurence filename'
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+ extracts the first occurence of `filename' from `archive'
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+ and terminates without scanning to the end of the archive.
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* Removed obsolete command line options:
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** --absolute-paths superseeded by --absolute-names
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Sergey Poznyakoff