tar --extract
¶The following keywords control warnings that can be issued during archive extraction.
‘%s: skipping existing file’
‘%s: implausibly old time stamp %s’
‘%s: time stamp %s is %s s in the future’
‘Extracting contiguous files as regular files’
‘Attempting extraction of symbolic links as hard links’, warning message ‘Attempting extraction of symbolic links as hard links’
‘%s: Unknown file type '%c', extracted as normal file’
‘Current %s is newer or same age’
‘Ignoring unknown extended header keyword '%s'’
Controls verbose description of failures occurring when trying to run alternative decompressor programs (see alternative decompression programs). This warning is disabled by default (unless --verbose is used). A common example of what you can get when using this warning is:
$ tar --warning=decompress-program -x -f archive.Z tar (child): cannot run compress: No such file or directory tar (child): trying gzip
This means that tar
first tried to decompress
archive.Z using compress
, and, when that
failed, switched to gzip
.
‘Record size = %lu blocks’