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@@ -25,6 +25,19 @@ automatically. It is not necessary to give --null option.
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is useful e.g. for processing output from `find dir -print0'.
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An orthogonal option --unquote is provided as well.
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+* New option --test-label tests the archive volume label.
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+If an argument is specified, the label is compared against its value.
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+Tar exits with code 0 if the two strings match, and with code 2 if
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+they do not.
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+If no argument is given, --verbose option is implied. In this case,
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+tar prints the label name, if it is present and exits with code 0.
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+* New option --show-stored-names. When creating archive in verbose mode,
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+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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* 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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