-GNU tar NEWS - User visible changes. 2014-01-27
+GNU tar NEWS - User visible changes. 2014-02-10
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optional arguments, supplied in curly braces between the percent
sign and the specifier letter.
- %d - output number of seconds since tar started
- %{r,w,d}T - output I/O totals; optional arguments supply prefixes
+ %d - Number of seconds since tar started.
+ %{r,w,d}T - I/O totals; optional arguments supply prefixes
to be used before number of bytes read, written and
deleted, correspondingly.
- %{FMT}t - output current local time using FMT as strftime(3) format
- If {FMT} is omitted, use %c
- %{N}* - pad output with spaces to the Nth column, or to the
- current screen width, if {N} is not given.
- %c - a shortcut for "%{%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S}t: %ds, %{read,wrote}T%*\r"
+ %{FMT}t - Current local time using FMT as strftime(3) format.
+ If {FMT} is omitted, use %c.
+ %{N}* - Pad output with spaces to the Nth column, or to the
+ current screen width, if {N} is not given.
+ %c - A shortcut for "%{%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S}t: %ds, %{read,wrote}T%*\r"
+
+* New option --one-top-level
+
+The option --one-top-level tells tar to extract all files into a
+subdirectory named by the base name of the archive (minus standard
+compression suffixes recognizable by --auto-compress). When used with
+an argument, as in --one-top-level=DIR, the files are extracted into the
+supplied DIRectory. This ensures that no archive members are
+extracted outside of the specified directory, even if the archive is
+crafted so as to put them elsewhere.
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