tar: Same Order
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1 Same Order
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1 '--same-order'
1 '--preserve-order'
1 '-s'
1 To process large lists of file names on machines with small amounts
1 of memory. Use in conjunction with '--compare' ('--diff', '-d'),
1 '--list' ('-t') or '--extract' ('--get', '-x').
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1 The '--same-order' ('--preserve-order', '-s') option tells 'tar' that
1 the list of file names to be listed or extracted is sorted in the same
1 order as the files in the archive. This allows a large list of names to
1 be used, even on a small machine that would not otherwise be able to
1 hold all the names in memory at the same time. Such a sorted list can
1 easily be created by running 'tar -t' on the archive and editing its
1 output.
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1 This option is probably never needed on modern computer systems.
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