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The tardy program is a tar(1) post-processor.
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It may be used to manipulate the file headers
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in tar(5) archive files in various ways.
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The reason the tardy program was written was because the author wanted to
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"spruce up" tar files before posting them to the net, mostly to remove
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artefacts of the development environment, without introducing more.
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The tardy program was designed to allow you to alter certain
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characteristics of files after they have been included in the tar
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file. Among them are:
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change file owner (by number or name)
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change file group (by number or name)
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add directory prefix (e.g. dot)
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change file protections (e.g. from 600 to 644)
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Note that all of these affect all files in the archive.
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