-for a file being archived. This corresponds to the UNIX98 -l option.
-The current semantics of the -l option is retained for compatibility
-with previous releases, however such usage is strongly deprecated as
-the option will change to its UNIX98 semantics in the future releases.
+ for a file being archived. This corresponds to the UNIX98 -l option.
+ The current semantics of the -l option is retained for compatibility
+ 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
+ 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.