NAME

shtool tarball - GNU shtool command for rolling standardized tarballs

SYNOPSIS

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