Hi,

- Most -s patterns will include / for pathnames, so to make the
manpage easier to parse by humans change the example delimitor to
`|' instead of `/'

- Add a complex practical example of the -s feature.

Index: tar.1
================================================== =================
RCS file: /cvs/src/bin/pax/tar.1,v
retrieving revision 1.47
diff -u -p -r1.47 tar.1
--- tar.1 24 May 2005 16:33:45 -0000 1.47
+++ tar.1 30 Jan 2006 08:31:20 -0000
@@ -207,7 +207,7 @@ specified.
.Pp
The format of these regular expressions is
.Pp
-.Dl /old/new/[gp]
+.Dl |old|new|[gp]
.Pp
As in
.Xr ed 1 ,
@@ -228,7 +228,7 @@ The
string may also contain newline characters.
Any non-null character can be used as a delimiter
.Po
-.Ql /
+.Ql |
is shown here
.Pc .
Multiple
@@ -324,6 +324,18 @@ from a compressed archive named
Note that the glob pattern has been quoted to avoid expansion by the shell:
.Pp
.Dl $ tar tvzf backup.tar.gz '*.jpeg'
+.Pp
+Verbosely list, but do not extract, the compressed archive
+.Pa mutt.tar.gz ,
+prepend all filenames in
+.Pa /etc ,
+but not the files in
+.Pa /etc/systrace ,
+with
+.Pa var/package/rejected/
+.Pp
+.Dl $ tar -s '|^etc/systrace.*|&|' \e
+.Dl -s '|^etc.*|var/package/rejected/&|' -tzf mutt.tar.gz
.Pp
For more detailed examples, see
.Xr pax 1 .



# Han