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[Bug-tar] Extended attribute handling
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Angus McInnes |
Subject: |
[Bug-tar] Extended attribute handling |
Date: |
Wed, 21 Jun 2017 21:23:28 +1000 |
Hi, I've noticed a couple of issues in the "tar" documentation that confused me:
Currently, --xattrs-exclude and --xattrs-include are documented in
man/info as being POSIX regular expressions, but the actual
implementation uses fnmatch wildcard patterns, which are quite
different. The example --xattrs-exclude='^user.' in the documentation
doesn't work.
Also, the documentation states that by default all extended attribute
names are extracted from the archive, but actually if --xattrs-include
is not provided tar will only extract extended attributes that start
with "user.".
-- Angus McInnes
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