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authorPaul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>2018-05-16 09:03:47 -0700
committerPaul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>2018-05-16 09:03:47 -0700
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* doc/tar.1: Don't refer to nonexistent tar(5).
-rw-r--r--doc/tar.118
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/doc/tar.1 b/doc/tar.1
index 7c000b1f..cd63fa75 100644
--- a/doc/tar.1
+++ b/doc/tar.1
@@ -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 "November 16, 2017" "TAR" "GNU TAR Manual"
+.TH TAR 1 "May 16, 2018" "TAR" "GNU TAR Manual"
.SH NAME
tar \- an archiving utility
.SH SYNOPSIS
@@ -256,7 +256,7 @@ exist when creating an archive, it will be created and all files will
be added to the resulting archive (the \fBlevel 0\fR dump). To create
incremental archives of non-zero level \fBN\fR, create a copy of the
snapshot file created during the level \fBN-1\fR, and use it as
-\fIFILE\fR.
+\fIFILE\fR.
When listing or extracting, the actual contents of \fIFILE\fR is not
inspected, it is needed only due to syntactical requirements. It is
@@ -287,7 +287,7 @@ effect only if the archive is open for reading (e.g. with
.B \-\-list
or
.B \-\-extract
-options).
+options).
.TP
\fB\-\-no\-check\-device\fR
Do not check device numbers when creating incremental archives.
@@ -465,7 +465,7 @@ Format of the archive being processed. One of:
.BR v7 .
.B TAR_SUBCOMMAND
A short option (with a leading dash) describing the operation \fBtar\fR is
-executing.
+executing.
.RE
.SS Handling of file attributes
.TP
@@ -694,7 +694,7 @@ executing.
.B TAR_FD
File descriptor which can be used to communicate the new volume name
to
-.BR tar .
+.BR tar .
.RE
.RS
@@ -732,7 +732,7 @@ When this option is used in conjunction with
.BR \-\-multi\-volume ,
.B tar
will keep track of which volume of a multi-volume archive it is
-working in \fIFILE\fR.
+working in \fIFILE\fR.
.SS Device blocking
.TP
\fB\-b\fR, \fB\-\-blocking\-factor\fR=\fIBLOCKS\fR
@@ -740,7 +740,7 @@ Set record size to \fIBLOCKS\fRx\fB512\fR bytes.
.TP
\fB\-B\fR, \fB\-\-read\-full\-records\fR
When listing or extracting, accept incomplete input records after
-end-of-file marker.
+end-of-file marker.
.TP
\fB\-i\fR, \fB\-\-ignore\-zeros\fR
Ignore zeroed blocks in archive. Normally two consecutive 512-blocks
@@ -1106,7 +1106,7 @@ Show file or archive names after transformation by \fB\-\-strip\fR and
Print total bytes after processing the archive. If \fISIGNAL\fR is
given, print total bytes when this signal is delivered. Allowed
signals are:
-.BR SIGHUP ,
+.BR SIGHUP ,
.BR SIGQUIT ,
.BR SIGINT ,
.BR SIGUSR1 ", and"
@@ -1300,7 +1300,6 @@ failure during backup to a remote device.
.BR lzop (1),
.BR rmt (8),
.BR symlink (7),
-.BR tar (5),
.BR xz (1).
.PP
Complete \fBtar\fR manual: run
@@ -1332,4 +1331,3 @@ There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
.\" time-stamp-end: "\""
.\" time-stamp-line-limit: 20
.\" end:
-

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