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3.9 Controlling Warning Messages

Sometimes, while performing the requested task, GNU tar notices some conditions that are not exactly errors, but which the user should be aware of. When this happens, tar issues a warning message describing the condition. Warning messages are output to the standard error and they do not affect the exit code of tar command.

GNU tar allows the user to suppress some or all of its warning messages:

--warning=keyword

Control display of the warning messages identified by keyword. If keyword starts with the prefix ‘no-’, such messages are suppressed. Otherwise, they are enabled.

Multiple ‘--warning’ messages accumulate.

The tables below list allowed values for keyword along with the warning messages they control.

Keywords controlling tar operation

all

Enable all warning messages. This is the default.

none

Disable all warning messages.

filename-with-nuls

%s: file name read contains nul character

alone-zero-block

A lone zero block at %s

Keywords applicable for tar --create

cachedir

%s: contains a cache directory tag %s; %s

file-shrank

%s: File shrank by %s bytes; padding with zeros

xdev

%s: file is on a different filesystem; not dumped

file-ignored

%s: Unknown file type; file ignored
%s: socket ignored
%s: door ignored

file-unchanged

%s: file is unchanged; not dumped

ignore-archive

%s: file is the archive; not dumped

file-removed

%s: File removed before we read it

file-changed

%s: file changed as we read it

Keywords applicable for tar --extract

timestamp

%s: implausibly old time stamp %s
%s: time stamp %s is %s s in the future

contiguous-cast

Extracting contiguous files as regular files

symlink-cast

Attempting extraction of symbolic links as hard links

unknown-cast

%s: Unknown file type '%c', extracted as normal file

ignore-newer

Current %s is newer or same age

unknown-keyword

Ignoring unknown extended header keyword '%s'

decompress-program

Controls verbose description of failures occurring when trying to run alternative decompressor programs (see alternative decompression programs). This warning is disabled by default (unless ‘--verbose’ is used). A common example of what you can get when using this warning is:

$ tar --warning=decompress-program -x -f archive.Z
tar (child): cannot run compress: No such file or directory
tar (child): trying gzip

This means that tar first tried to decompress ‘archive.Z’ using compress, and, when that failed, switched to gzip.

record-size

Record size = %lu blocks

Keywords controlling incremental extraction:

rename-directory

%s: Directory has been renamed from %s
%s: Directory has been renamed

new-directory

%s: Directory is new

xdev

%s: directory is on a different device: not purging

bad-dumpdir

Malformed dumpdir: 'X' never used


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