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This manual is for GNU tar (version 1.16.1, 7 December 2006), which creates and extracts files from archives.
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Appendices
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Introduction
Tutorial Introduction to tar
Two Frequently Used Options
How to Create Archives
How to List Archives
How to Extract Members from an Archive
Invoking GNU tar
The Three Option Styles
All tar Options
GNU tar Operations
Advanced GNU tar Operations
How to Add Files to Existing Archives: --append
Updating an Archive
Options Used by --create
Options Used by --extract
Options to Help Read Archives
Changing How tar Writes Files
Coping with Scarce Resources
Performing Backups and Restoring Files
Setting Parameters for Backups and Restoration
Choosing Files and Names for tar
Reading Names from a File
Excluding Some Files
Wildcards Patterns and Matching
Crossing File System Boundaries
Date input formats
Controlling the Archive Format
Making tar Archives More Portable
GNU tar and POSIX tar
How to Extract GNU-Specific Data Using Other tar Implementations
Using Less Space through Compression
Tapes and Other Archive Media
Blocking
Many Archives on One Tape
Using Multiple Tapes
Tar Internals
Storing Sparse Files
Genfile
Copying This Manual