From: Sergey Poznyakoff Date: Sun, 9 Jul 2006 11:25:18 +0000 (+0000) Subject: Fix some typos X-Git-Url: https://git.brokenzipper.com/gitweb?a=commitdiff_plain;h=5addfdcb03a710d220d0d38262b106b99268b2ec;p=chaz%2Ftar Fix some typos --- diff --git a/doc/dumpdir.texi b/doc/dumpdir.texi index ab917c0..73b1736 100644 --- a/doc/dumpdir.texi +++ b/doc/dumpdir.texi @@ -125,7 +125,7 @@ corresponding directory, in variable @code{GNU.dumpdir}. @item GNU and old GNU archives These formats implement special header type @samp{D}, which is similar -to ustar header @samp{5} (directory), except that it preceeds a data +to ustar header @samp{5} (directory), except that it precedes a data block containing the dumpdir. @end itemize diff --git a/doc/snapshot.texi b/doc/snapshot.texi index ab003f7..d5f35ab 100644 --- a/doc/snapshot.texi +++ b/doc/snapshot.texi @@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ A @dfn{snapshot file} (or @dfn{directory file}) is created during incremental backups (@pxref{Incremental Dumps}). It -contains the status of the filesystem at the time of the dump and is +contains the status of the file system at the time of the dump and is used to determine which files were modified since the last backup. @GNUTAR{} version @value{VERSION} supports two snapshot file @@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ time of the last backup. First number is the number of seconds, the second one is the number of nanoseconds, since the beginning of the epoch. - Following lines contain directory metadate, one line per + Following lines contain directory metadata, one line per directory. The line format is: @smallexample diff --git a/doc/sparse.texi b/doc/sparse.texi index 14a6ea4..e8a9ea1 100644 --- a/doc/sparse.texi +++ b/doc/sparse.texi @@ -132,8 +132,8 @@ This format presented the following two problems: @item Whereas the POSIX specification allows a variable to appear multiple times in a header, it requires that only the last occurrence be -meaningful. Thus, multiple ocurrences of @code{GNU.sparse.offset} and -@code{GNU.sparse.numbytes} are conficting with the POSIX specs. +meaningful. Thus, multiple occurrences of @code{GNU.sparse.offset} and +@code{GNU.sparse.numbytes} are conflicting with the POSIX specs. @item Attempting to extract such archives using a third-party @command{tar}s diff --git a/doc/tar.texi b/doc/tar.texi index 1460a14..ed1dba9 100644 --- a/doc/tar.texi +++ b/doc/tar.texi @@ -796,7 +796,7 @@ Similarly, the term ``command'' can be confusing, as it is often used in two different ways. People sometimes refer to @command{tar} ``commands''. A @command{tar} @dfn{command} is the entire command line of user input which tells @command{tar} what to do --- including the operation, options, -and any arguments (file names, pipes, other commands, etc). However, +and any arguments (file names, pipes, other commands, etc.). However, you will also sometimes hear the term ``the @command{tar} command''. When the word ``command'' is used specifically like this, a person is usually referring to the @command{tar} @emph{operation}, not the whole line. @@ -995,7 +995,7 @@ not encounter this. The archive member is a GNU @dfn{volume header} (@pxref{Tape Files}). @item --Continued at byte @var{n}-- -Encountered only at the beginning of a multy-volume archive +Encountered only at the beginning of a multi-volume archive (@pxref{Using Multiple Tapes}). This archive member is a continuation from the previous volume. The number @var{n} gives the offset where the original file was split. @@ -2807,7 +2807,7 @@ and group IDs when creating a @command{tar} file, rather than names. @item -o The function of this option depends on the action @command{tar} is performing. When extracting files, @option{-o} is a synonym for -@option{--no-same-owner}, i.e. it prevents @command{tar} from +@option{--no-same-owner}, i.e., it prevents @command{tar} from restoring ownership of files being extracted. When creating an archive, it is a synonym for @@ -2980,7 +2980,7 @@ appending it to an archive. @xref{remove files}. @item --restrict Disable use of some potentially harmful @command{tar} options. -Currently this option disables shell invocaton from multi-volume menu +Currently this option disables shell invocation from multi-volume menu (@pxref{Using Multiple Tapes}). @opsummary{rmt-command} @@ -3406,7 +3406,7 @@ information about @GNUTAR{} is this Texinfo documentation. @opindex show-defaults @GNUTAR{} has some predefined defaults that are used when you do not -explicitely specify another values. To obtain a list of such +explicitly specify another values. To obtain a list of such defaults, use @option{--show-defaults} option. This will output the values in the form of @command{tar} command line options: @@ -3690,7 +3690,7 @@ consequence of doing so. The usual consequence is that the single file, which was meant to be saved, is rather destroyed. @end enumerate -So, recognizing the likelihood and the catastrophical nature of these +So, recognizing the likelihood and the catastrophic nature of these errors, @GNUTAR{} now takes some distance from elegance, and cowardly refuses to create an archive when @option{--create} option is given, there are no arguments besides options, and @@ -4461,7 +4461,7 @@ The @option{--ignore-zeros} (@option{-i}) option is turned off by default becaus versions of @command{tar} write garbage after the end-of-archive entry, since that part of the media is never supposed to be read. @GNUTAR{} does not write after the end of an archive, but seeks to -maintain compatiblity among archiving utilities. +maintain compatibility among archiving utilities. @table @option @item --ignore-zeros @@ -4676,7 +4676,7 @@ archive, instead of current umask settings. Use in conjunction with @node Directory Modification Times and Permissions @unnumberedsubsubsec Directory Modification Times and Permissions -After sucessfully extracting a file member, @GNUTAR{} normally +After successfully extracting a file member, @GNUTAR{} normally restores its permissions and modification times, as described in the previous sections. This cannot be done for directories, because after extracting a directory @command{tar} will almost certainly @@ -4707,9 +4707,9 @@ incremental archives (@pxref{Incremental Dumps}). The member order in an incremental archive is reversed: first all directory members are stored, followed by other (non-directory) members. So, when extracting from incremental archives, @GNUTAR{} alters the above procedure. It -remebers all restored directories, and restores their meta-data +remembers all restored directories, and restores their meta-data only after the entire archive has been processed. Notice, that you do -not need to specity any special options for that, as @GNUTAR{} +not need to specify any special options for that, as @GNUTAR{} automatically detects archives in incremental format. There may be cases, when such processing is required for normal archives @@ -4792,7 +4792,7 @@ or even like this if you want to process the concatenation of the files: tar -xOzf foo.tgz bigfile1 bigfile2 | process @end smallexample -Hovewer, @option{--to-command} may be more convenient for use with +However, @option{--to-command} may be more convenient for use with multiple files. See the next section. @node Writing to an External Program @@ -5395,7 +5395,7 @@ then in order to restore the exact contents the file system had when the last level was created, you will need to restore from all backups in turn. Continuing our example, to restore the state of @file{/usr} file system, one would do@footnote{Notice, that since both archives -were created withouth @option{-P} option (@pxref{absolute}), these +were created without @option{-P} option (@pxref{absolute}), these commands should be run from the root file system.}: @smallexample @@ -5423,7 +5423,7 @@ Versions of @GNUTAR{} up to 1.15.1 used to dump verbatim binary contents of the DUMPDIR header (with terminating nulls) when @option{--incremental} or @option{--listed-incremental} option was given, no matter what the verbosity level. This behavior, and, -especially, the binary output it produced were considered incovenient +especially, the binary output it produced were considered inconvenient and were changed in version 1.16}: @smallexample @@ -5574,7 +5574,7 @@ normally be the host that actually contains the file system. However, the host machine must have @GNUTAR{} installed, and must be able to access the directory containing the backup scripts and their support files using the same file name that is used on the -machine where the scripts are run (i.e. what @command{pwd} will print +machine where the scripts are run (i.e., what @command{pwd} will print when in that directory on that machine). If the host that contains the file system does not have this capability, you can specify another host as long as it can access the file system through NFS. @@ -5623,7 +5623,7 @@ to use public key authentication. @defvr {Backup variable} RSH_COMMAND -Full file name of @command{rsh} binary on remote mashines. This will +Full file name of @command{rsh} binary on remote machines. This will be passed via @option{--rsh-command} option to the remote invocation of @GNUTAR{}. @end defvr @@ -5908,7 +5908,7 @@ Force backup even if today's log file already exists. @item -v[@var{level}] @itemx --verbose[=@var{level}] Set verbosity level. The higher the level is, the more debugging -information will be output during execution. Devault @var{level} +information will be output during execution. Default @var{level} is 100, which means the highest debugging level. @item -t @var{start-time} @@ -5980,7 +5980,7 @@ Start restoring from the given backup level, instead of the default 0. @item -v[@var{level}] @itemx --verbose[=@var{level}] Set verbosity level. The higher the level is, the more debugging -information will be output during execution. Devault @var{level} +information will be output during execution. Default @var{level} is 100, which means the highest debugging level. @item -h @@ -6083,7 +6083,7 @@ floppy disk, or CD write drive. If you do not name the archive, @command{tar} uses the value of the environment variable @env{TAPE} as the file name for the archive. If that is not available, @command{tar} uses a default, compiled-in archive -name, usually that for tape unit zero (i.e. @file{/dev/tu00}). +name, usually that for tape unit zero (i.e., @file{/dev/tu00}). @cindex Standard input and output @cindex tar to standard input and output @@ -6658,7 +6658,7 @@ b.c Notice quoting of the pattern to prevent the shell from interpreting it. -The effect of @option{--wildcards} option is cancelled by +The effect of @option{--wildcards} option is canceled by @option{--no-wildcards}. This can be used to pass part of the command line arguments verbatim and other part as globbing patterns. For example, the following invocation: @@ -7131,7 +7131,7 @@ Only replace the @var{number}th match of the @var{regexp}. Note: the @var{posix} standard does not specify what should happen when you mix the @samp{g} and @var{number} modifiers. @GNUTAR{} follows the GNU @command{sed} implementation in this regard, so -the the interaction is defined to be: ignore matches before the +the interaction is defined to be: ignore matches before the @var{number}th, and then match and replace all matches from the @var{number}th on. @@ -7681,7 +7681,7 @@ cases the maximum file name length will be shorter than 256 characters. @item The maximum length of a symbolic link name is limited to 100 characters. -@item Maximum size of a file the archive is able to accomodate +@item Maximum size of a file the archive is able to accommodate is 8GB @item Maximum value of UID/GID is 2097151. @item Maximum number of bits in device major and minor numbers is 21. @@ -7748,7 +7748,7 @@ switch to @samp{posix}. @GNUTAR{} is able to create and read compressed archives. It supports @command{gzip} and @command{bzip2} compression programs. For backward -compatibilty, it also supports @command{compress} command, although +compatibility, it also supports @command{compress} command, although we strongly recommend against using it, since there is a patent covering the algorithm it uses and you could be sued for patent infringement merely by running @command{compress}! Besides, it is less @@ -7884,7 +7884,7 @@ and produce uncompressed data on the standard output. @cindex Using encrypted archives The @option{--use-compress-program} option, in particular, lets you implement your own filters, not necessarily dealing with -compression/decomression. For example, suppose you wish to implement +compression/decompression. For example, suppose you wish to implement PGP encryption on top of compression, using @command{gpg} (@pxref{Top, gpg, gpg ---- encryption and signing tool, gpg, GNU Privacy Guard Manual}). The following script does that: @@ -7901,7 +7901,7 @@ esac @end smallexample Suppose you name it @file{gpgz} and save it somewhere in your -@env{PATH}. Then the following command will create a commpressed +@env{PATH}. Then the following command will create a compressed archive signed with your private key: @smallexample @@ -7979,7 +7979,7 @@ won't take more space than the original. @opindex sparse @item -S @itemx --sparse -This option istructs @command{tar} to test each file for sparseness +This option instructs @command{tar} to test each file for sparseness before attempting to archive it. If the file is found to be sparse it is treated specially, thus allowing to decrease the amount of space used by its image in the archive. @@ -8544,7 +8544,7 @@ POSIX-aware tars.} @node Other Tars @subsection How to Extract GNU-Specific Data Using Other @command{tar} Implementations -In previous sections you became acquainted with various quircks +In previous sections you became acquainted with various quirks necessary to make your archives portable. Sometimes you may need to extract archives containing GNU-specific members using some third-party @command{tar} implementation or an older version of @@ -8636,7 +8636,7 @@ $ rm -f GNUFileParts.27962 Notice, that if the @command{tar} implementation you use supports PAX format archives, it will probably emit warnings about unknown keywords -during extraction. They will lool like this: +during extraction. They will look like this: @smallexample @group @@ -8651,7 +8651,7 @@ Unknown extended header keyword 'GNU.volume.offset' ignored. You can safely ignore these warnings. If your @command{tar} implementation is not PAX-aware, you will get -more warnigns and more files generated on your disk, e.g.: +more warnings and more files generated on your disk, e.g.: @smallexample @group @@ -8677,7 +8677,7 @@ members. Read further to learn more about them. @cindex sparse files, extracting with non-GNU tars Any @command{tar} implementation will be able to extract sparse members from a PAX archive. However, the extracted files will be @dfn{condensed}, -i.e. any zero blocks will be removed from them. When we restore such +i.e., any zero blocks will be removed from them. When we restore such a condensed file to its original form, by adding zero bloks (or @dfn{holes}) back to their original locations, we call this process @dfn{expanding} a compressed sparse file. @@ -8725,7 +8725,7 @@ name will be @file{@var{dir}/@var{name}}. @end enumerate In the unlikely case when this algorithm does not suite your needs, -you can explicitely specify output file name as a second argument to +you can explicitly specify output file name as a second argument to the command: @smallexample @@ -9428,7 +9428,7 @@ examples of format parameter considerations. @opindex blocking-factor The data in an archive is grouped into blocks, which are 512 bytes. Blocks are read and written in whole number multiples called -@dfn{records}. The number of blocks in a record (i.e. the size of a +@dfn{records}. The number of blocks in a record (i.e., the size of a record in units of 512 bytes) is called the @dfn{blocking factor}. The @option{--blocking-factor=@var{512-size}} (@option{-b @var{512-size}}) option specifies the blocking factor of an archive. @@ -9486,7 +9486,7 @@ it would normally. To extract files from an archive with a non-standard blocking factor (particularly if you're not sure what the blocking factor is), you can usually use the @option{--read-full-records} (@option{-B}) option while specifying a blocking factor larger then the blocking factor of the archive -(i.e. @samp{tar --extract --read-full-records --blocking-factor=300}. +(i.e., @samp{tar --extract --read-full-records --blocking-factor=300}. @xref{list}, for more information on the @option{--list} (@option{-t}) operation. @xref{Reading}, for a more detailed explanation of that option. @@ -9894,11 +9894,11 @@ requirement for multi-volume archives to be stored on tapes. Instead, they can use whatever media type the user finds convenient, they can even be located on files. -When creating a multi-volume arvhive, @GNUTAR{} continues to fill +When creating a multi-volume archive, @GNUTAR{} continues to fill current volume until it runs out of space, then it switches to next volume (usually the operator is queried to replace the tape on this point), and continues working on the new volume. This operation -continues untill all requested files are dumped. If @GNUTAR{} detects +continues until all requested files are dumped. If @GNUTAR{} detects end of media while dumping a file, such a file is archived in split form. Some very big files can even be split across several volumes. @@ -10017,7 +10017,7 @@ otherwise @command{tar} will write over the volume it just finished.) The volume number used by @command{tar} in its tape-changing prompt can be changed; if you give the @option{--volno-file=@var{file-of-number}} option, then -@var{file-of-number} should be an unexisting file to be created, or +@var{file-of-number} should be an non-existing file to be created, or else, a file already containing a decimal number. That number will be used as the volume number of the first volume written. When @command{tar} is finished, it will rewrite the file with the @@ -10147,7 +10147,7 @@ To extract an archive member from one volume (assuming it is described that volume), use @option{--extract}, again without @option{--multi-volume}. -If an archive member is split across volumes (i.e. its entry begins on +If an archive member is split across volumes (i.e., its entry begins on one volume of the media and ends on another), you need to specify @option{--multi-volume} to extract it successfully. In this case, you should load the volume where the archive member starts, and use @@ -10268,7 +10268,7 @@ creating multiple volume archives. @cindex Listing volume label The volume label will be displayed by @option{--list} along with the file contents. If verbose display is requested, it will also be -explicitely marked as in the example below: +explicitly marked as in the example below: @smallexample @group @@ -10313,7 +10313,7 @@ with using @option{--label} option, @command{tar} will first check if the archive label matches the one specified and will refuse to proceed if it does not. Use this as a safety precaution to avoid accidentally overwriting existing archives. For example, if you wish to add files -to @file{archive}, presumably labelled with string @samp{My volume}, +to @file{archive}, presumably labeled with string @samp{My volume}, you will get: @smallexample @@ -10325,7 +10325,7 @@ tar: Archive not labeled to match `My volume' @noindent in case its label does not match. This will work even if -@file{archive} is not labelled at all. +@file{archive} is not labeled at all. Similarly, @command{tar} will refuse to list or extract the archive if its label doesn't match the @var{archive-label} @@ -10556,7 +10556,7 @@ This option is deprecated. Please use @option{--format=posix} instead. @appendix Configuring Help Summary Running @kbd{tar --help} displays the short @command{tar} option -summary (@pxref{help}). This summary is organised by @dfn{groups} of +summary (@pxref{help}). This summary is organized by @dfn{groups} of semantically close options. The options within each group are printed in the following order: a short option, eventually followed by a list of corresponding long option names, followed by a short description of @@ -10790,7 +10790,7 @@ Right margin of the text output. Used for wrapping. @appendix Index of Command Line Options This appendix contains an index of all @GNUTAR{} long command line -options. The options are listed without the preceeding double-dash. +options. The options are listed without the preceding double-dash. For a cross-reference of short command line options, @ref{Short Option Summary}. @printindex op