NAME¶
ha - a small file archiver utility
SYNOPSIS¶
ha <command>[<option><option>...] archive
[
name ... ]
DESCRIPTION¶
After the program name comes a command name (single letter) and options (single
letters, appended to the command name without a space).
COMMANDS¶
- a[sdqemr012]
- Add files matching search pattern to archive.
- e[aqty]
- Extract files matching search pattern from archive.
- x[aqty]
- Extract files matching search pattern from archive using
path information stored in archive.
- l[f]
- List files currently in archive.
- d[q]
- Delete files matching search pattern from archive. If
archive does not contain any files after deletion it is removed.
- f[sdqemr012]
- Freshen files in archive. All files matching search pattern
and newer than version already in archive are updated to archive.
- u[sdqemr012]
- Update files to archive. All files matching search pattern
that are newer than version already in archive or are not yet in archive
are updated to archive.
- t[q]
- Test files in archive.
OPTIONS¶
- 0,1,2
- Try compression method #. More than one can be specified.
Methods are:
0-CPY Simple copying of files.
1-ASC Default method using sliding window dictionary followed by arithmetic
coder. Offers quite good compression on wide variety of file types.
2-HSC Compression method based on finite context model and arithmetic
coder. Quite slow for binary data, but offers very good compression
especially for longer text files.
- y
- Assume answer yes on all questions.
- t
- Touch files when extracting. Sets file times to current
machine time.
- r
- Recurse through subdirectories while searching for files
matching search pattern.
- f
- Full listing of stored file information.
- m
- Move files when archiving. Files are removed from disk
after they are successfully written to archive.
- a
- Set system specific file attributes when extracting
files.
- s
- Find special files when archiving.
- e
- Do not store pathname information.
- q
- Quiet operation.
- d
- Make separate entries for directories. Saves information
about empty directories, directory attributes etc. in archive.
AUTHOR¶
This manual page was written by Mikhail Gusarov <dottedmag@dottedmag.net>
for Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).
