disables this behavior.
This option affects all --files-from options that occur after it in the command line. Its effect is reverted by the --no-verbatim-files-from} option.
This option is implied by the --null option.
See also --add-file.
-X, --exclude-from=FILE
Exclude files matching patterns listed in FILE.
File name transformations
--strip-components=NUMBER
Strip NUMBER leading components from file names on extraction.
--transform=EXPRESSION, --xform=EXPRESSION
Use sed replace EXPRESSION to transform file names.
File name matching options
These options affect both exclude and include patterns.
--anchored
Patterns match file name start.
--ignore-case
Ignore case.
--no-anchored
Patterns match after any / (default for exclusion).
--no-ignore-case
Case sensitive matching (default).
--no-wildcards
Verbatim string matching.
--no-wildcards-match-slash
Wildcards do not match /.
--wildcards
Use wildcards (default for exclusion).
--wildcards-match-slash
Wildcards match / (default for exclusion).
Informative output
--checkpoint[=N]
Display progress messages every Nth record (default 10).
--checkpoint-action=ACTION
Run ACTION on each checkpoint.
--clamp-mtime
Only set time when the file is more recent than what was given with --mtime.
--full-time
Print file time to its full resolution.
--index-file=FILE
Send verbose output to FILE.
-l, --check-links
Print a message if not all links are dumped.
--no-quote-chars=STRING
Disable quoting for characters from STRING.
--quote-chars=STRING
Additionally quote characters from STRING.
--quoting-style=STYLE
Set quoting style for file and member names. Valid values for STYLE are literal, shell, shell‐always, c, c‐maybe, escape, locale, clocale.
-R, --block-number
Show block number within archive with each message.
--show-omitted-dirs
When listing or extracting, list each directory that does not match search criteria.
--show-transformed-names, --show-stored-names
Show file or archive names after transformation by --strip and --transform options.
--totals[=SIGNAL]
Print total bytes after processing the archive. If SIGNAL is given, print total bytes when this signal is delivered. Allowed signals are: SIGHUP, SIGQUIT, SIGINT, SIGUSR1, and SIGUSR2. The SIG prefix can be
omitted.
--utc Print file modification times in UTC.
-v, --verbose
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 GNU Tar Manual, subsection 2.5.1 "The --verbose Option".
--warning=KEYWORD
Enable or disable warning messages identified by KEYWORD. The messages are suppressed if KEYWORD is prefixed with no- and enabled otherwise.
Multiple --warning messages accumulate.
Keywords controlling general tar operation:
all Enable all warning messages. This is the default.
none Disable all warning messages.
filename‐with‐nuls
"%s: file name read contains nul character"
alone‐zero‐block
"A lone zero block at %s"
Keywords applicable for tar ‐‐create:
cachedir
"%s: contains a cache directory tag