-GNU tar NEWS - User visible changes. 2014-01-22
+GNU tar NEWS - User visible changes. 2014-02-14
Please send GNU tar bug reports to <bug-tar@gnu.org>
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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.
+
+* New option --sort
+
+The --sort=ORDER option instructs tar to sort directory entries
+according to ORDER. It takes effect when creating archives.
+Available ORDERs are: none (the default), name and inode. The
+latter may be absent, if the underlying system does not provide
+the necessary information.
+
+Using --sort=name ensures the member ordering in the created archive
+is uniform and reproducible. Using --sort=inode reduces the number
+of disk seeks made when creating the archive and thus can considerably
+speed up archivation.
+
+* Manpages
+
+This release includes official tar(1) and rmt(8) manpages.
+Distribution maintainers are kindly asked to use these instead of the
+home-made pages they provided so far.
+
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version 1.27.1 - Sergey Poznyakoff, 2013-11-17
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-Copyright 1994-2001, 2003-2010, 2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+Copyright 1994-2001, 2003-2010, 2013-2014 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This file is part of GNU tar.