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GNU tar NEWS - User visible changes.
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Please send GNU tar bug reports to <[email protected]>
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+version 1.15.91 - Sergey Poznyakoff, (CVS version)
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+* New features
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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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version 1.15.90 - Sergey Poznyakoff, 2006-02-19
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* New features
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-* Any number of -T (--files-from) options may be used in the command line.
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+** Any number of -T (--files-from) options may be used in the command line.
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The file specified with -T may include any valid `tar' options,
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including another -T option.
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Compatibility note: older versions of tar would only recognize -C
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@@ -13,14 +22,14 @@ as an option name within the file list file. Now any file whose name
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starts with - is handled as an option. To insert file names starting with
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dash, use the --add-file option.
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-* List files containing null-separated file names are detected and processed
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+** List files containing null-separated file names are detected and processed
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automatically. It is no longer necessary to give the --null option.
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-* New option --no-unquote disables the unquoting of input file names.
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+** New option --no-unquote disables the unquoting of input file names.
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This is useful 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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+** 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, the --verbose option is implied. In this case,
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tar prints the label name if present and exits with code 0.
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-* New option --show-stored-names. When creating an archive in verbose mode,
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+** New option --show-stored-names. When creating an archive in verbose mode,
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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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+** 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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+** 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 --delay-directory-restore delays restoring modification times
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+** New option --delay-directory-restore delays restoring modification times
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and permissions of extracted directories until the end of extraction.
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This is necessary for restoring from archives with unusual member
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ordering (in particular, those created with --no-recursion option).
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This option is implied when restoring from incremental archives.
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-* New option --restrict prohibits use of some potentially harmful tar
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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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-* New options --quoting-style and --quote-chars control the way tar
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+** New options --quoting-style and --quote-chars control the way tar
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quotes member names on output. The --quoting-style takes an argument
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specifying the quoting style to use (literal, shell, shell-always,
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c, escape, locale, clocale). The argument to --quote-chars is a string
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would not quote them otherwise. The option --no-quote-chars is
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provided to disable quoting certain characters.
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-* The end-of-volume script (introduced with --info-script option) can
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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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+** 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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stamps to nanosecond resolution.
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-* The -v option now prints time stamps only to 1-minute resolution,
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+** The -v option now prints time stamps only to 1-minute resolution,
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not full resolution, to avoid using up too many output columns.
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Nanosecond resolution is now supported, but that would be too much.
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