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authorJason Downs <downsj@cvs.openbsd.org>1996-10-27 06:45:15 +0000
committerJason Downs <downsj@cvs.openbsd.org>1996-10-27 06:45:15 +0000
commit945a3c5542ffa9426aacc8b7c4bf60fc8887616a (patch)
treea17c13ac6184acf715099794d24773de62f81dce /bin/pax/tar.1
parent66e78bfe7e60a01de232231c5f38914d3d630f6e (diff)
Initial cut -C support in paxtar. Exceeds GNU tar by quite a bit.
General pax still seems to work ok.
Diffstat (limited to 'bin/pax/tar.1')
-rw-r--r--bin/pax/tar.111
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/bin/pax/tar.1 b/bin/pax/tar.1
index 78037f2a484..b6d4d9f1dc9 100644
--- a/bin/pax/tar.1
+++ b/bin/pax/tar.1
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@
.\" (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF
.\" THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
.\"
-.\" $OpenBSD: tar.1,v 1.2 1996/08/10 03:08:00 tholo Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: tar.1,v 1.3 1996/10/27 06:45:14 downsj Exp $
.\"
.Dd June 11, 1996
.Dt TAR 1
@@ -40,6 +40,10 @@
.No [-]{crtux}[befhmopvwzHLPXZ014578]
.Op Ar archive
.Op Ar blocksize
+.\" XXX how to do this right?
+.No [-C
+.Ar directory
+.No ]
.Ar file1
.Op Ar file2...
.Sh DESCRIPTION
@@ -100,6 +104,11 @@ Verbose operation mode.
Interactively rename files.
.It Fl z
Compress archive using gzip.
+.It Fl C Ar directory
+This is a positional argument which sets the working directory for the
+following files. When extracting, files will be extracted into
+the specified directory; when creating, the specified files will be matched
+from the directory.
.It Fl H
Follow symlinks given on command line only.
.It Fl L