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-.TH TAR 1 "February 15, 2022" "TAR" "GNU TAR Manual"
+.TH TAR 1 "July 11, 2022" "TAR" "GNU TAR Manual"
.SH NAME
tar \- an archiving utility
.SH SYNOPSIS
Disable extended attributes support.
.TP
.BI \-\-xattrs\-exclude= PATTERN
-Specify the exclude pattern for xattr keys. \fIPATTERN\fR is a POSIX
-regular expression, e.g. \fB\-\-xattrs\-exclude='^user\.'\fR, to exclude
+Specify the exclude pattern for xattr keys. \fIPATTERN\fR is a globbing
+pattern, e.g. \fB\-\-xattrs\-exclude='user.*'\fR to include only
attributes from the user namespace.
.TP
.BI \-\-xattrs\-include= PATTERN
-Specify the include pattern for xattr keys. \fIPATTERN\fR is a POSIX
-regular expression.
+Specify the include pattern for xattr keys. \fIPATTERN\fR is a globbing
+pattern.
.SS Device selection and switching
.TP
\fB\-f\fR, \fB\-\-file\fR=\fIARCHIVE\fR