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authorPatrick Ohly <patrick.ohly@intel.com>2016-10-24 12:54:48 +0200
committerPatrick Ohly <patrick.ohly@intel.com>2019-04-15 08:59:07 +0200
commit7c5e94c9ec3a70ddaeec6c554149eb13db9cfe60 (patch)
tree910a217dd29a26a1fc25ab45e5f80ae1a0c4f34e /tar
parent19bd077987ff26a4cb108edde5eaf970837aa1f0 (diff)
downloadlibarchive-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')
-rw-r--r--tar/bsdtar.13
-rw-r--r--tar/bsdtar.c12
2 files changed, 11 insertions, 4 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.
diff --git a/tar/bsdtar.c b/tar/bsdtar.c
index 280a0a16..b59963d0 100644
--- a/tar/bsdtar.c
+++ b/tar/bsdtar.c
@@ -839,8 +839,6 @@ main(int argc, char **argv)
break;
}
}
- if (bsdtar->flags & OPTFLAG_NO_SUBDIRS)
- only_mode(bsdtar, "-n", "cru");
if (bsdtar->flags & OPTFLAG_STDOUT)
only_mode(bsdtar, "-O", "xt");
if (bsdtar->flags & OPTFLAG_UNLINK_FIRST)
@@ -890,6 +888,16 @@ main(int argc, char **argv)
only_mode(bsdtar, buff, "cru");
}
+ /*
+ * When creating an archive from a directory tree, the directory
+ * walking code will already avoid entering directories when
+ * recursive inclusion of directory content is disabled, therefore
+ * changing the matching behavior has no effect for creation modes.
+ * It is relevant for extraction or listing.
+ */
+ archive_match_set_inclusion_recursion(bsdtar->matching,
+ !(bsdtar->flags & OPTFLAG_NO_SUBDIRS));
+
/* Filename "-" implies stdio. */
if (strcmp(bsdtar->filename, "-") == 0)
bsdtar->filename = NULL;