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PROGRAM:

NAME

shtool-tarball - GNU shtool command for rolling standardized tarballs

SYNOPSIS

shtool tarball [-t|--trace] [-v|--verbose] [-o|--output tarball] [-c|--compress prog]
[-d|--directory directory] [-u|--user user] [-g|--group group] [-e|--exclude pattern] path
[path ...]

DESCRIPTION

This command is for rolling input files under path into a distribution tarballs which can
be extracted by tar(1).

The four important aspects of good open source software tarballs are: (1) unpack into a
single top-level directory, (2) top-level directory corresponds to the tarball filename,
(3) tarball files should be sorted and (4) arbitrary names for file owner and group.

OPTIONS

The following command line options are available.

-v, --verbose
Display some processing information.

-t, --trace
Enable the output of the essential shell commands which are executed.

-o, --output tarball
Output tarball to file tarball.

-c, --compress prog
Pipe resulting tarball through compression program prog.

-d, --directory directory
Sets the top-level directory into which the tarball unpacks. By default it is tarball
without the trailing ".tar.*" extension.

-u, --user user
The user (owner) of files and directories in the tarball to user.

-g, --group group
The group of files and directories in the tarball to group.

-e, --exclude pattern
Exclude files and directories matching comma-separated list of regex pattern from the
tarball. Directories are expanded before the filtering takes place. The default filter
pattern is ""CVS,\\.cvsignore,\\.svn,\\.[oa]\$"".

EXAMPLE

# Makefile.in
dist:
...
V=`shtool version -d short ...`;
shtool tarball -o foobar-$$V.tar.gz -c 'gzip -9'
-u bar -g gnu -e 'CVS,\.cvsignore' .

HISTORY

The GNU shtool tarball command was originally written by Ralf S. Engelschall
<rse@engelschall.com> in 1999 for GNU shtool.

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