X-Git-Url: https://git.dogcows.com/gitweb?a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=31087984f482d916c1299b312f80133ef47aa250;hb=738fb9c2f44eee567bb60e22dc011bdfd2f362a8;hp=29b4486a0c573ca072cc9ff395d6e20913799c97;hpb=2f6c03cba298eaa46a6e18500c0ab17d35a00a23;p=chaz%2Ftar diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 29b4486..3108798 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -GNU tar NEWS - User visible changes. 2013-01-26 +GNU tar NEWS - User visible changes. 2013-02-10 Please send GNU tar bug reports to @@ -50,6 +50,24 @@ Additionally, the options --xattrs-include and --xattrs-exclude allow you to selectively control for which files to store (or extract) the extended attributes. +* Passing command line arguments to external commands. + +Any option taking a command name as its argument now accepts a full +command line as well. Thus, it is now possible to pass additional +arguments to invoked programs. The affected options are: + + --checkpoint-action=exec + -I, --use-compress-program + -F, --info-script + --to-command + +Furthermore, if any additional information is supplied to such a +command via environment variables, these variables can now be used in +the command line itself. Care should be taken to escape them, to +prevent from being expanded too early, for example: + + tar -x -f a.tar --info-script='changevol $TAR_ARCHIVE $TAR_VOLUME' + * New configure option --enable-gcc-warnings, intended for debugging.