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| author | Sergey Poznyakoff <gray@gnu.org> | 2019-02-04 21:30:00 +0200 |
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| committer | Sergey Poznyakoff <gray@gnu.org> | 2019-02-04 21:30:00 +0200 |
| commit | 97d8951536e709e079f6ea38bdc16228934a0c73 (patch) | |
| tree | 517918666008eed5b5f66bab89516d477b8729fd /doc | |
| parent | bf5d66109c3c2ef850554290f5d0ff0001b1d0fa (diff) | |
| download | tar-97d8951536e709e079f6ea38bdc16228934a0c73.tar.gz | |
Minor fixes in docs.
* doc/tar.1: Remove description of the --preserve option
Document verbosity levels.
* doc/tar.texi: Fix description of the -o option.
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/tar.1 | 11 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/tar.texi | 4 |
2 files changed, 8 insertions, 7 deletions
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ .\" .\" You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License .\" along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. -.TH TAR 1 "January 14, 2019" "TAR" "GNU TAR Manual" +.TH TAR 1 "February 4, 2019" "TAR" "GNU TAR Manual" .SH NAME tar \- an archiving utility .SH SYNOPSIS @@ -562,9 +562,6 @@ stored in archive with owner name \fINEWUSR\fR and UID \fINEWUID\fR. \fB\-p\fR, \fB\-\-preserve\-permissions\fR, \fB\-\-same\-permissions\fR extract information about file permissions (default for superuser) .TP -\fB\-\-preserve\fR -Same as both \fB\-p\fR and \fB\-s\fR. -.TP \fB\-\-same\-owner\fR Try extracting files with the same ownership as exists in the archive (default for superuser). @@ -1117,7 +1114,11 @@ The \fBSIG\fR prefix can be omitted. Print file modification times in UTC. .TP \fB\-v\fR, \fB\-\-verbose\fR -Verbosely list files processed. +Verbosely list files processed. Each instance of this option on the +command line increases the verbosity level by one. The maximum +verbosity level is 3. For a detailed discussion of how various +verbosity levels affect tar's output, please refer to \fBGNU Tar +Manual\fR, subsection 2.5.1 "\fBThe \-\-verbose Option\fR". .TP \fB\-\-warning\fR=\fIKEYWORD\fR Enable or disable warning messages identified by \fIKEYWORD\fR. The diff --git a/doc/tar.texi b/doc/tar.texi index a475c9b2..71318f3e 100644 --- a/doc/tar.texi +++ b/doc/tar.texi @@ -3795,8 +3795,8 @@ them with the equivalent long option. @item -m @tab @ref{--touch}. -@item -o @tab When creating, @ref{--no-same-owner}, when extracting --- -@ref{--portability}. +@item -o @tab When extracting, same as @ref{--no-same-owner}. When creating, +-- @ref{--old-archive}. The latter usage is deprecated. It is retained for compatibility with the earlier versions of @GNUTAR{}. In future releases |