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36 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Tim Kientzle
ec3df377a1 Fill in the approximate date when tar(1) first appeared. 2008-01-02 00:24:10 +00:00
Tim Kientzle
a38d1d4c8b bsdtar 2.2.3:
* Implement --use-compress-program using new libarchive feature.
  * Minor portability improvement by adjusting casts used to
    print out uids, gids, and device numbers.

Thanks to: Joerg Sonnenberger for the --use-compress-program implementation.
MFC after: 15 days
2007-05-29 05:39:10 +00:00
Tim Kientzle
3b0e49fad9 Mention the formats supported by bsdtar; include an
example that shows how to work with an ISO 9660 image.
2007-05-20 18:23:39 +00:00
Tim Kientzle
dbd5adf0d9 Correct the copyright messages: Make this a standard vanilla
2-clause BSD license, update the year to 2007.
2007-01-09 08:12:17 +00:00
Tim Kientzle
323b71146a In the examples, use "tar.gz" as the extension for
gzip-compressed tar archives.

Thanks to: Mike Hunter
2006-05-01 01:34:21 +00:00
Simon L. B. Nielsen
43614f10a2 Use the .Fx macro.
MFC after:	3 days
2006-01-17 19:37:07 +00:00
Tim Kientzle
6593049efd Remove the -B option from the directory-copying examples. The -B
option is undocumented because it does nothing.  It does nothing
because bsdtar never needs it.  It is accepted because gnutar does
sometimes need it and many scripts use it.

Reported by: Pawel Jakub Dawidek
2005-12-09 05:19:00 +00:00
Ruslan Ermilov
ceeb3b43de Fixed troff warnings.
Approved by:	re (blanket manpages)
2005-06-27 07:37:01 +00:00
Murray Stokely
793a2b6ef1 Point users to tcsh(1) for information about shell globbing patterns,
rather than 'XXXX'.

MFC after:	1 week
2005-04-19 16:06:04 +00:00
David E. O'Brien
a89017c846 Add directory hierarchy copying example. 2005-03-28 18:18:44 +00:00
Tim Kientzle
d14c1502f0 Add --newer-ctime, --newer-mtime, --newer-ctime-than, and --newer-mtime-than
switches to support selecting files by time of modification.

Special thanks to: Steven M. Bellovin, Rich $alz, and Jim Berets,
	authors of the public-domain getdate.y date-parsing code.
2005-03-13 18:36:24 +00:00
Tim Kientzle
62a2ad1b03 Add --strip-components option, per bin/77666.
Thanks to: Sangwoo Shim
2005-03-13 04:12:30 +00:00
Tim Kientzle
b432e867aa Document the --null, --one-file-system, and -I options.
Clarify that -T can be used in 'x' mode as well as 'c' mode.
2005-02-18 19:19:45 +00:00
Ruslan Ermilov
6c7216df78 Sort sections. 2005-01-18 13:43:56 +00:00
Ruslan Ermilov
a866e17077 Added the EXIT STATUS section where appropriate. 2005-01-17 07:44:44 +00:00
Tim Kientzle
6eb25c6af2 Document the -O option's new behavior in the presence of -t.
MFC after: 3 days
2004-08-27 04:19:28 +00:00
Tim Kientzle
b757c8251b gtar uses -F for another purpose, so bsdtar no longer treats it as a
synonym for --format.  Update the man page to reflect this.  While
I'm here, change the man page to document "tar" rather than "bsdtar,"
update some comments about -l compatibility and fix a few grammar nits.
2004-08-08 17:20:23 +00:00
Tim Kientzle
a6cc81c62c GNU and POSIX disagree about -o and -l.
For -l, upset everyone by breaking it.  Specifically, -l now produces
a lengthy error message that suggests --check-links (POSIX -l) or
--one-file-system (GNU -l) instead.  However, if POSIXLY_CORRECT is set,
use the POSIX interpretation.

For -o, please everyone by making it work both ways:
  * -xo uses POSIX behavior
  * -co uses "almost GNU" behavior (as close as we can get until
    libarchive implements a true V7 tar format)
2004-08-03 06:19:08 +00:00
Tim Kientzle
1c962ead2f Correct the explanation of the -X option.
Thanks to: Pav Lucistnik
2004-08-01 20:09:08 +00:00
Tim Kientzle
8e5c78995e Of course, I meant POSIX.1-1996, not 1997.
Thanks to: Andrey Chernov
2004-07-25 00:31:24 +00:00
Tim Kientzle
ee92911f48 My bad: /dev/sa0, no 'r'
Thanks (and many apologies) to: Cristoph Mallon
2004-07-21 06:43:10 +00:00
Tim Kientzle
d3ca4b04cb Fix some misspellings, document the TAPE environment
variable and the default tape device.
2004-07-19 05:24:41 +00:00
Ruslan Ermilov
284fcee0c0 Fixed cross-references in SEE ALSO.
Emininated double space and hard sentence breaks.
2004-07-04 21:15:37 +00:00
Ruslan Ermilov
6a3e8b0adc Mechanically kill hard sentence breaks. 2004-07-02 22:22:35 +00:00
Tim Kientzle
f758d316c0 Document the -W convention for accessing long options.
Also correct an old error: there was no tar command in Sixth Edition.
2004-06-26 22:58:29 +00:00
Tim Kientzle
0674dded37 Rename C=dir to -C dir, which is what people expect.
This requires some non-trivial surgery to the options parsing.

While here, let people who only have getopt() access long options
through the -W longopt=value convention.
2004-06-26 22:49:51 +00:00
Tim Kientzle
c066ba2f01 Oops: gtar's --dereference should be a synonym for bsdtar's -L, not -H.
Pointed out by: devel/nspr port
Thanks to: Kris Kennaway
2004-06-11 01:35:56 +00:00
Tim Kientzle
a55bfb25e7 The --include='pattern' option is the natural counterpart to
--exclude='pattern'.

I should have added this a long time ago, since it's so useful for testing.
In particular, it allows me to select a few entries from a troublesome
archive so that I can easily focus my debugging efforts:
   bsdtar -czf new.tgz --include='*foo*' @old.tgz
2004-06-07 03:49:48 +00:00
Tim Kientzle
e5572b4b7c Correction: -h should be a synonym for -L, not -H.
(as specified by Linux Standards Base, GNU tar, and 4.4BSD documentation)
2004-05-31 20:22:41 +00:00
Tim Kientzle
dcec34670d Update manpage to track new security features. 2004-05-17 03:19:31 +00:00
Tim Kientzle
6c6b3d9aa5 -U is now implemented. (It's been recognized by bsdtar for a while;
now libarchive actually supports the underlying request.)
2004-04-29 05:22:13 +00:00
Tim Kientzle
0c27da5f82 Remove information about specific formats; replace with a
reference to libarchive-formats(5).
2004-04-28 04:43:57 +00:00
Tim Kientzle
de60e4436b Manpage changes suggested by Irina Liakh.
Also, add -h as a synonym for -H, for Linux Standards Base compliance.
2004-04-13 19:45:55 +00:00
Tim Kientzle
f6f4796250 Allow arguments to appear in any order.
While I'm here, add a couple of extra sanity-checks to
the argument parsing (reject -j -z, for instance) and
update the docs a bit.

Requested by: most everyone ;-)
2004-04-08 19:37:01 +00:00
Tim Kientzle
54b3a82544 Document the newly-implemented -T option. 2004-04-08 06:21:03 +00:00
Tim Kientzle
d7fe3b4f52 Initial commit for bsdtar. 2004-04-05 21:32:18 +00:00