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 matching 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).