ha(1)
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 match
- ing 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).