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-version 1.13.26
+version 1.13.90
* Added support for POSIX.1-2001 archive format.
* New option --format allows to select the output archive format
with previous releases, however such usage is strongly deprecated as
the option will change to its UNIX98 semantics in the future releases.
-* New option --first-copy can be used in conjunction with one of
+* New option --occurrence[=N] can be used in conjunction with one of
the subcommands --delete, --diff, --extract or --list when a list of
files is given either on the command line or via -T option. This
- option instructs tar to terminate when all of the filenames from
- the list were processed.
+ option instructs tar to process only the Nth occurrence of each named
+ file. N defaults to 1, so `tar -x -f archive --occurrence filename'
+ extracts the first occurrence of `filename' from `archive'
+ and terminates without scanning to the end of the archive.
* Removed obsolete command line options:
-** --absolute-paths superseeded by --absolute-names
+** --absolute-paths superseded by --absolute-names
** --block-compress is not needed any longer
-** --block-size superseeded by --blocking--factor
-** --modification-time superseeded by --touch
-** --read-full-blocks supeseeded by --read-full-records
-** --record-number superseeded by --block-number
-** --version-control superseeded by --backup
+** --block-size superseded by --blocking-factor
+** --modification-time superseded by --touch
+** --read-full-blocks superseded by --read-full-records
+** --record-number superseded by --block-number
+** --version-control superseded by --backup
* New message translations fi (Finnish), gl (Galician), hr (Croatian),
hu (Hungarian), ms (Malaysian), nb (Norwegian), ro (Romanian), sk
To enable the old behavior, use the -P or --absolute-names option.
* Tar now handles file names with multibyte encodings (e.g. UTF-8, Shift-JIS)
- correctly. It relies on the mbrtowc function to handle multibytes.
+ correctly. It relies on the mbrtowc function to handle multibyte characters.
* The file generated by -g or --listed-incremental now uses a format
that is independent of locale, so that users need not worry about