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-.\" DO NOT MODIFY THIS FILE! It was generated by help2man 1.47.16.
-.TH TARLZ "1" "September 2022" "tarlz 0.23" "User Commands"
+.\" DO NOT MODIFY THIS FILE! It was generated by help2man 1.49.2.
+.TH TARLZ "1" "January 2024" "tarlz 0.25" "User Commands"
.SH NAME
tarlz \- creates tar archives with multimember lzip compression
.SH SYNOPSIS
@@ -10,12 +10,12 @@ Tarlz is a massively parallel (multi\-threaded) combined implementation of
the tar archiver and the lzip compressor. Tarlz uses the compression library
lzlib.
.PP
-Tarlz creates, lists, and extracts archives in a simplified and safer
-variant of the POSIX pax format compressed in lzip format, keeping the
-alignment between tar members and lzip members. The resulting multimember
-tar.lz archive is fully backward compatible with standard tar tools like GNU
-tar, which treat it like any other tar.lz archive. Tarlz can append files to
-the end of such compressed archives.
+Tarlz creates tar archives using a simplified and safer variant of the POSIX
+pax format compressed in lzip format, keeping the alignment between tar
+members and lzip members. The resulting multimember tar.lz archive is
+backward compatible with standard tar tools like GNU tar, which treat it
+like any other tar.lz archive. Tarlz can append files to the end of such
+compressed archives.
.PP
Keeping the alignment between tar members and lzip members has two
advantages. It adds an indexed lzip layer on top of the tar archive, making
@@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ follow symlinks; archive the files they point to
set number of (de)compression threads [2]
.TP
\fB\-o\fR, \fB\-\-output=\fR<file>
-compress to <file>
+compress to <file> ('\-' for stdout)
.TP
\fB\-p\fR, \fB\-\-preserve\-permissions\fR
don't subtract the umask on extraction
@@ -127,6 +127,9 @@ exclude files matching a shell pattern
\fB\-\-ignore\-ids\fR
ignore differences in owner and group IDs
.TP
+\fB\-\-ignore\-metadata\fR
+compare only file size and file content
+.TP
\fB\-\-ignore\-overflow\fR
ignore mtime overflow differences on 32\-bit
.TP
@@ -149,7 +152,7 @@ If no archive is specified, tarlz tries to read it from standard input or
write it to standard output.
.PP
Exit status: 0 for a normal exit, 1 for environmental problems
-(file not found, files differ, invalid command line options, I/O errors,
+(file not found, files differ, invalid command\-line options, I/O errors,
etc), 2 to indicate a corrupt or invalid input file, 3 for an internal
consistency error (e.g., bug) which caused tarlz to panic.
.SH "REPORTING BUGS"
@@ -157,8 +160,8 @@ Report bugs to lzip\-bug@nongnu.org
.br
Tarlz home page: http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/tarlz.html
.SH COPYRIGHT
-Copyright \(co 2022 Antonio Diaz Diaz.
-Using lzlib 1.13
+Copyright \(co 2024 Antonio Diaz Diaz.
+Using lzlib 1.14\-rc1
License GPLv2+: GNU GPL version 2 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
.br
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.