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authorRichard Sharpe <sharpe@samba.org>1998-04-11 08:00:49 +0000
committerRichard Sharpe <sharpe@samba.org>1998-04-11 08:00:49 +0000
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smbclient.1 updated to reflect the new functionality and to document functionality
that has been available for a long time. More updates needed ... people tend to forget the man pages when adding functionality. (This used to be commit 587624e1ebc668900600c0ac7f272e6f1b92685b)
-rw-r--r--docs/manpages/smbclient.126
1 files changed, 24 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/docs/manpages/smbclient.1 b/docs/manpages/smbclient.1
index 5f95abd3c1..1d7551ce42 100644
--- a/docs/manpages/smbclient.1
+++ b/docs/manpages/smbclient.1
@@ -418,7 +418,7 @@ smbclient
]
.IR tarfile
[
-.IR filenames....
+.IR filenames ...
]
.RS 3
@@ -439,7 +439,9 @@ option is given, the tar files will be restored from the top level of
the share. Must be followed by the name of the tar file, device or "\-"
for standard input. Mutually exclusive with the
.B c
-flag.
+flag. Restored files have theuir creation times (mtime) set to the date saved in
+the tar file. Directories currently do not get their creation dates restored
+properly.
.B I
Include files and directories. Is the default behaviour when
@@ -481,6 +483,18 @@ up. Useful with the
flags.
.LP
+.B Long File Names
+
+smbclient's tar option now supports long file names both on backup and
+restore. However, the full path name of the file must be less than 1024 bytes.
+Also, when a tar archive is created, smbclient's tar option places all files
+in the archive with relative names, not absolute names.
+
+.B Filenames ...
+
+All file names can be given as DOS path names (with \e as the component
+separator) or as UNIX path names (with / as the component separator).
+
.B Examples
smbclient \e\emypc\emyshare "" -N -Tx backup.tar
@@ -494,6 +508,14 @@ Restore everything except users/docs
smbclient \e\emypc\emyshare "" -N -Tc backup.tar users/docs
Create a tar file of the files beneath users/docs.
+
+smbclient \e\emypc\emyshare "" -N -tc backup.tar users\edocs
+
+Create the same tar file as above, but now use a DOS path name.
+
+smbclient \e\emypc\emyshare "" -N -Tc backup.tar \e*
+
+Create a tar file of all the files and directories in the share.
.RE
.RE