.\" .\" tardy - a tar post-processor .\" Copyright (C) 1998, 2000, 2004, 2008-2010 Peter Miller .\" .\" This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify .\" it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by .\" the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or .\" (at your option) any later version. .\" .\" This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, .\" but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of .\" MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the .\" GNU General Public License for more details. .\" .\" You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License .\" along with this program. If not, see .\" . .\" .ad l .hy 0 .nf .so version.so

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Tardy \*(v)

The tardy program is a tar(1) post-processor. It may be used to manipulate the file headers in tar(5) archive files in various ways.

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The reason the tardy program was written was because the author wanted to “spruce up” tar files before posting them to the net, mostly to remove artefacts of the development environment, without introducing more.

The tardy program was designed to allow you to alter certain characteristics of files after they have been included in the tar file. Among them are:

- change file owner (by number or name)
- change file group (by number or name)
- add directory prefix (e.g. dot)
- change file protections (e.g. from 600 to 644)

Note that all of these affect all files in the archive.

Tardy runs on almost any flavor of UNIX. The source distribution is self configuring using a GNU Autoconf generated configure script. .\" ------------------------------------------------------------------------

| Tardy is written and owned by Peter Miller <pmiller@ opensource. org. au> and is freely distributable under the terms and conditions of the GNU GPL. |  | There is more Software by Peter Miller at his home page. |

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