This is tar.info, produced by makeinfo version 4.13 from tar.texi.
-This manual is for GNU `tar' (version 1.21, 30 October 2008), which
+This manual is for GNU `tar' (version 1.22, 5 March 2009), which
creates and extracts files from archives.
Copyright (C) 1992, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003,
-2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this
document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License,
GNU tar: an archiver tool
*************************
-This manual is for GNU `tar' (version 1.21, 30 October 2008), which
+This manual is for GNU `tar' (version 1.22, 5 March 2009), which
creates and extracts files from archives.
Copyright (C) 1992, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003,
-2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this
document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License,
tutorial and manual for GNU `tar'. Franc,ois Pinard put version 1.11.8
of the manual together by taking information from all these sources and
merging them. Melissa Weisshaus finally edited and redesigned the book
-to create version 1.12. The book for versions from 1.14 up to 1.21
+to create version 1.12. The book for versions from 1.14 up to 1.22
were edited by the current maintainer, Sergey Poznyakoff.
For version 1.12, Daniel Hagerty contributed a great deal of
format. *Note Incremental Dumps::.
`--lzma'
-`-J'
This option tells `tar' to read or write archives through `lzma'.
*Note gzip::.
input name quoting::.
`--use-compress-program=PROG'
+`-I=PROG'
Instructs `tar' to access the archive through PROG, which is
presumed to be a compression program of some sort. *Note gzip::.
`--wildcards-match-slash'
Wildcards match `/'. *Note controlling pattern-matching::.
+`--xz'
+`-J'
+ Use `xz' for compressing or decompressing the archives. *Note
+ gzip::.
+
+
---------- Footnotes ----------
(1) Earlier versions of GNU `tar' understood `-l' as a synonym for
-C *note --directory::.
-F *note --info-script::.
-G *note --incremental::.
--J *note --lzma::.
+-J *note --xz::.
-K *note --starting-file::.
-L *note --tape-length::.
-M *note --multi-volume::.
standard output, and then exit successfully. For example,
`tar --version' might print:
- tar (GNU tar) 1.21
+ tar (GNU tar) 1.22
Copyright (C) 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software. You may redistribute copies of it under the terms
of the GNU General Public License <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
Add new entries to an archive that already exists.
`--update'
-`-r'
+`-u'
Add more recent copies of archive members to the end of an
archive, if they exist.
systems: `CVS', `RCS', `SCCS', `SVN', `Arch', `Bazaar',
`Mercurial', and `Darcs'.
- As of version 1.21, the following files are excluded:
+ As of version 1.22, the following files are excluded:
* `CVS/', and everything under it
Makefiles. This practice will change in the future, in the
meantime, however this means that projects containing file names
more than 99 characters long will not be able to use GNU `tar'
- 1.21 and Automake prior to 1.9.
+ 1.22 and Automake prior to 1.9.
ustar
Archive format defined by POSIX.1-1988 specification. It stores