From f984c43b822035eb6ba2dbb37ad84ebe91ca4bbb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Sergey Poznyakoff Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2006 15:05:36 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Update --- NEWS | 11 ++++++----- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index f502944..76f8183 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -20,10 +20,10 @@ is now interpreted as a request to extract from the archive the file named '*.c'. To treat member names as globbing patterns, use --wildcards option. -So, if you wish tar to mimic the behavior of versions up to 1.15.90, -set 'TAR_OPTIONS=--wildcards'. +If you wish tar to mimic the behavior of versions up to 1.15.90, +add --wildcards to the value of the environment variable TAR_OPTIONS. -The exact way tar interprets member names is controlled by the +The exact way in which tar interprets member names is controlled by the following command line options: --wildcards use wildcards @@ -57,11 +57,12 @@ with UNIX98. This ends the transition period started with version 1.14. in the archive or member names before extracting. The option takes a sed replace expression as its argument. For example, - tar cf foo.tar --transform 's,^,prefix/' + tar cf foo.tar --transform 's,^,prefix/,' will add 'prefix/' to all file names stored in foo.tar. -** --strip-components option works when deleting and comparing. +** --strip-components option works when deleting and comparing. In previous +versions it worked only with --extract. ** New option --show-transformed-names enables display of transformed file or archive. In particular, when creating archive in verbose mode, -- 2.45.2