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authorru <ru@FreeBSD.org>2005-01-18 09:03:19 +0000
committerru <ru@FreeBSD.org>2005-01-18 09:03:19 +0000
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Fold two ENVIRONMENT sections into one.
Diffstat (limited to 'gnu')
-rw-r--r--gnu/usr.bin/tar/tar.165
1 files changed, 33 insertions, 32 deletions
diff --git a/gnu/usr.bin/tar/tar.1 b/gnu/usr.bin/tar/tar.1
index b317af3..d5d9228 100644
--- a/gnu/usr.bin/tar/tar.1
+++ b/gnu/usr.bin/tar/tar.1
@@ -365,12 +365,44 @@ Block the output of compression program for tapes or floppies
Specify tape drive and density.
.El
.Sh ENVIRONMENT
-The environment variable
+The
+.Nm
+program examines the following environment variables.
+.Bl -tag -width "POSIXLY_CORRECT"
+.It Ev POSIXLY_CORRECT
+Normally,
+.Nm
+will process flag arguments that appear in the file list.
+If set in the environment, this causes
+.Nm
+to consider the first
+non-flag argument to terminate flag processing, as per the POSIX specification.
+.It Ev SHELL
+In interactive mode, a permissible response to the prompt is to
+request to spawn a subshell, which will be
+.Pa /bin/sh
+unless the
+.Ev SHELL
+variable is set.
+.It Ev TAPE
+Changes
+.Nm Ns 's
+default tape drive (which is still overridden by the
+.Fl f
+flag).
+.It Ev TAR_OPTIONS
+The
.Ev TAR_OPTIONS
+environment variable
can hold a set of default options for
.Nm .
These options are interpreted first and can be overwritten by explicit command
line parameters.
+.It TAR_RSH
+The TAR_RSH environment variable allows you to override the default
+shell used as the transport for
+.Nm .
+.El
.Sh EXAMPLES
To create an archive on tape drive
.Pa /dev/sa0
@@ -457,37 +489,6 @@ To specify the correct time zone use either e.g.\&
.Sq "13:15 CEST"
or
.Sq "13:15+200" .
-.Sh ENVIRONMENT
-The
-.Nm
-program examines the following environment variables.
-.Bl -tag -width "POSIXLY_CORRECT"
-.It Ev POSIXLY_CORRECT
-Normally,
-.Nm
-will process flag arguments that appear in the file list.
-If set in the environment, this causes
-.Nm
-to consider the first
-non-flag argument to terminate flag processing, as per the POSIX specification.
-.It Ev SHELL
-In interactive mode, a permissible response to the prompt is to
-request to spawn a subshell, which will be
-.Pa /bin/sh
-unless the
-.Ev SHELL
-variable is set.
-.It Ev TAPE
-Changes
-.Nm Ns 's
-default tape drive (which is still overridden by the
-.Fl f
-flag).
-.It TAR_RSH
-The TAR_RSH environment variable allows you to override the default
-shell used as the transport for
-.Nm .
-.El
.Sh FILES
.Bl -tag -width "/dev/sa0"
.It Pa /dev/sa0
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