Name

qtar — a somewhat shorter tar invocation

Syntax

qtar [-x] [--ext|--svn] archive_file [tar-options...] files...

Options

-x
Exclude SCM directories like "CVS", ".svn", ".hg" and ".git".
--ext
Sort files by extension
--svn
Sort files such that file.c and .svn/file.c are next to each other, to yield better compression of SVN checkout tar archives where the .svn file is often a copy of the former.

See also

hxtools(7)

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