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Diffstat (limited to 'usr/src/man/man1/tar.1')
| -rw-r--r-- | usr/src/man/man1/tar.1 | 6 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/usr/src/man/man1/tar.1 b/usr/src/man/man1/tar.1 index fd21f6c53c..0641851b2f 100644 --- a/usr/src/man/man1/tar.1 +++ b/usr/src/man/man1/tar.1 @@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ tar \- create tape archives and add or extract files .LP .nf \fBtar\fR x[BeFhilmnopqTvw@/[0-7]][fk][X...][j|J|z|Z] [\fItarfile\fR] [\fIsize\fR] - [\fIexclude-file\fR]... [\fIfile\fR]... + [\fIexclude-file\fR]... [\(miC \fIdirectory\fR] [\fIfile\fR]... .fi .SH DESCRIPTION @@ -81,6 +81,10 @@ performs the \fBc\fR (create) or \fBr\fR (replace) operation on \fIfile\fR. Use short relative path names for \fIfile\fR. If \fIfile\fR is "\fB\&.\fR", archive all files in \fIdirectory\fR. This operand enables archiving files from multiple directories not related by a close common parent. +.sp +This option may also be passed once to \fBx\fR (extract). In this case the +program will \fBchdir\fR to \fIdirectory\fR after opening the archive, but +before extracting its contents. .RE .sp |