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| author | Patrick Ohly <patrick.ohly@intel.com> | 2016-10-24 12:54:48 +0200 |
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| committer | Patrick Ohly <patrick.ohly@intel.com> | 2019-04-15 08:59:07 +0200 |
| commit | 7c5e94c9ec3a70ddaeec6c554149eb13db9cfe60 (patch) | |
| tree | 910a217dd29a26a1fc25ab45e5f80ae1a0c4f34e /tar/bsdtar.1 | |
| parent | 19bd077987ff26a4cb108edde5eaf970837aa1f0 (diff) | |
| download | libarchive-7c5e94c9ec3a70ddaeec6c554149eb13db9cfe60.tar.gz | |
non-recursive extract and list
Sometimes it makes sense to extract or list a directory contained in
an archive without also doing the same for the content of the
directory, i.e. allowing -n (= --no-recursion) in combination with the
x and t modes.
bsdtar uses the match functionality in libarchive to track include
matches. A new libarchive API call
archive_match_set_inclusion_recursion() gets introduced to
influence the matching behavior, with the default behavior as before.
Non-recursive matching can be achieved by anchoring the path match at
both start and end. Asking for a directory which itself isn't in the
archive when in non-recursive mode is an error and handled by the
existing mechanism for tracking unused inclusion entries.
Diffstat (limited to 'tar/bsdtar.1')
| -rw-r--r-- | tar/bsdtar.1 | 3 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/tar/bsdtar.1 b/tar/bsdtar.1 index 4c0fe818..82840547 100644 --- a/tar/bsdtar.1 +++ b/tar/bsdtar.1 @@ -398,8 +398,7 @@ and the default behavior in c, r, and u modes or if .Nm is run in x mode as root. .It Fl n , Fl Fl norecurse , Fl Fl no-recursion -(c, r, u modes only) -Do not recursively archive the contents of directories. +Do not operate recursively on the content of directories. .It Fl Fl newer Ar date (c, r, u modes only) Only include files and directories newer than the specified date. |