From: Sergey Poznyakoff Date: Sat, 4 Oct 2003 13:48:52 +0000 (+0000) Subject: Updated X-Git-Url: https://git.brokenzipper.com/gitweb?a=commitdiff_plain;h=35d44a05ebc344c349f0f7cdb5ef2bbf3b33ac12;p=chaz%2Ftar Updated --- diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 0faf95d..73f177c 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -34,11 +34,13 @@ version 1.13.26 with previous releases, however such usage is strongly deprecated as the option will change to its UNIX98 semantics in the future releases. -* New option --first-copy can be used in conjunction with one of +* New option --occurrence[=N] can be used in conjunction with one of the subcommands --delete, --diff, --extract or --list when a list of files is given either on the command line or via -T option. This - option instructs tar to terminate when all of the filenames from - the list were processed. + option instructs tar to process only the Nth occurence of each named + file. N defaults to 1, so `tar -x -f archive --occurence filename' + extracts the first occurence of `filename' from `archive' + and terminates without scanning to the end of the archive. * Removed obsolete command line options: ** --absolute-paths superseeded by --absolute-names