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revision 1.17 by gray, Mon Sep 1 17:04:21 2003 UTC revision 1.18 by gray, Wed Sep 3 11:03:23 2003 UTC
# Line 2  Suggestions for improving GNU tar. Line 2  Suggestions for improving GNU tar.
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3  * Incorporate fixes from major distributions, e.g., Debian GNU/Linux.  * Incorporate fixes from major distributions, e.g., Debian GNU/Linux.
4    
5  * Fix tar so that it can read and write POSIX.1-1990 tar archives.  * Add support for GNU private keywords in POSIX 1003.1-2001 headers,
6    so that the GNU extensions (--sparse, --incremental, --label and
7  * Add support for POSIX 1003.1-2001 tar archives  --multi-volume) may be used with POSIX archives.
   (along with technical corrections to the standard since 2001).  
8    
9  * Add support for a 'pax' command that conforms to POSIX 1003.1-2001.  * Add support for a 'pax' command that conforms to POSIX 1003.1-2001.
10    This would unify paxutils with tar.    This would unify paxutils with tar.
# Line 31  Suggestions for improving GNU tar. Line 30  Suggestions for improving GNU tar.
30    It would be useful to be able to use '--remove-files' with '--diff',    It would be useful to be able to use '--remove-files' with '--diff',
31    to remove all files that compare successfully, when verifying a backup.    to remove all files that compare successfully, when verifying a backup.
32    
33    * Add an option to cut away the first N output path elements:
34    
35      From: Marc Haber <mh+debian-bugs@zugschlus.de>
36      Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2003 08:55:31 +0200
37    
38      some archives have members like
39      foo/bar
40      foo/baz
41      foo/bam
42      
43      When I now want to extract the three members bar, baz and bam to the
44      directory fom instead foo, I need to extract to foo and then to move
45      the files over manually.
46    
47      patch(1) solves that problem by offering an option taking the number
48      of path elements to cut away before using the path name. With an
49      option like that, the above problem could be solved with
50    
51      tar --extract --cut-path-elements 1 --directory fom
52    
53        
54  * Copyright notice  * Copyright notice
55    

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