shtool-tarball (1) - Linux Manuals
shtool-tarball: GNU shtool command for rolling standardized tarballs
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' .