> Well, there are many options in gtar that do not follow a scheme but just > serve > a single purpose. For this reason, they are hard to remember. > > The current proposal would be covered by a general method in star: > > errctl= > > See: http://cdrtools.sourceforge.net/private/man/star/star.1.html > > page 21 ff.
After the first look star seems to have the features I need (though in my case I have to actively use gnu tar specific --exclude/--recursion/--anchored/--wildcards so a deeper research is needed to understand whether I can implement what I need using star) and appears to be maintained the last two years (but the absense of releases from 2009 till 2013 is not a good sign imho). But it definitely deserves some time to look at it deeper. Thanks for pointing to star! -- Vladimir A. Pavlov