nld and noft Manual

ar Utility
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modifier-option
is an ar option that gives instructions for the operation of the action-option.
The modifier-options are as follows:
Name Function (page 1 of 2)
-a Position new files in the archive after the file specified by the
position-name operand.
-b Position new files in the archive before the file specified by the
position-name operand.
-c Suppress the diagnostic message that would be written to standard
error by default when the archive file is created.
-C Prevent extracted files from replacing like-named files in the file
system. This option is useful when -T is also used, to prevent
truncated filenames from replacing files with the same prefix.
-i Position new files in the archive before the file specified by the
position-name operand (same function as the -b option).
-l In the OSS environment, create temporary files in the local current
working directory instead of the directory specified by the
environmental variable TMPDIR. In the Guardian environment and
on Windows platforms, this option is ignored; temporary files are
always created in the default subvolume in the Guardian
environment and in the current folder on platforms running
Windows.
-s Force regeneration of the archive symbol table even if ar is not
invoked with an option that modifies the archive file contents.
-T Allow filename truncation of extracted files having archive names
that are longer than the file system supports. By default, an error
occurs when attempting to extract a file with a name that is too long;
ar writes a diagnostic message and does not extract the file.
-u Update older files. When used with the -r option, this option causes
ar to replace a file within the archive only if the corresponding file
has a modification time that is at least as new as the modification
time of the file within the archive.