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[chaz/tar] / doc / tar.texi

diff --git a/doc/tar.texi b/doc/tar.texi
index 726661a9e5a143bb4cf947f683be883f17737c7d..e27f5fcfe917cf107e131c83084528291913e810 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/tar.texi
+++ b/doc/tar.texi
@@ -145,6 +145,8 @@
 @set xref-checkpoint @xref{verbose}
 @set pxref-checkpoint @pxref{verbose}
 
+@set op-check-links @kbd{--check-links}
+
 @set op-compare @kbd{--compare} (@kbd{--diff}, @kbd{-d})
 @set ref-compare @ref{compare}
 @set xref-compare @xref{compare}
@@ -2566,6 +2568,13 @@ reads through the archive.  Its intended for when you want a visual
 indication that @command{tar} is still running, but don't want to see
 @samp{--verbose} output.  @FIXME-xref{}
 
+@item --check-links
+
+If this option was given, @command{tar} will check the number of links
+dumped for each processed file. If this number does not match the
+total number of hard links for the file, a warning message will be
+output.
+
 @item --compress
 @itemx --uncompress
 @itemx -Z