| 1 | This is tar.info, produced by makeinfo version 4.8 from tar.texi.
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| 3 | This manual is for GNU `tar' (version 1.16.1, 7 December 2006),
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| 4 | which creates and extracts files from archives.
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| 6 | Copyright (C) 1992, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003,
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| 7 | 2004, 2005, 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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| 9 | Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this
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| 10 | document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License,
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| 11 | Version 1.1 or any later version published by the Free Software
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| 12 | Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, with the Front-Cover Texts
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| 13 | being "A GNU Manual," and with the Back-Cover Texts as in (a)
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| 14 | below. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled
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| 15 | "GNU Free Documentation License".
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| 16 |
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| 17 | (a) The FSF's Back-Cover Text is: "You are free to copy and modify
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| 18 | this GNU Manual. Buying copies from GNU Press supports the FSF in
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| 19 | developing GNU and promoting software freedom."
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| 20 |
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| 21 | INFO-DIR-SECTION Archiving
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| 22 | START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY
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| 23 | * Tar: (tar). Making tape (or disk) archives.
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| 24 | END-INFO-DIR-ENTRY
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| 25 |
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| 26 | INFO-DIR-SECTION Individual utilities
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| 27 | START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY
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| 28 | * tar: (tar)tar invocation. Invoking GNU `tar'.
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| 29 | END-INFO-DIR-ENTRY
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| 32 | Indirect:
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| 34 | tar.info-2: 300998
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| 36 | Tag Table:
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| 37 | (Indirect)
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| 39 | Node: Introduction10405
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| 40 | Node: Book Contents11192
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| 41 | Node: Definitions13364
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| 42 | Node: What tar Does15167
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| 43 | Node: Naming tar Archives17933
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| 44 | Node: Authors18653
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| 46 | Node: Tutorial20828
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| 47 | Node: assumptions21641
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| 48 | Node: stylistic conventions24121
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| 49 | Node: basic tar options24564
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| 50 | Node: frequent operations28202
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| 51 | Node: Two Frequent Options28854
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| 52 | Node: file tutorial29485
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| 53 | Node: verbose tutorial30846
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| 54 | Ref: verbose member listing33060
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| 55 | Node: help tutorial35813
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| 56 | Node: create36167
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| 57 | Node: prepare for examples37668
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| 65 | Node: extract53093
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| 68 | Ref: extracting files-Footnote-157407
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| 69 | Node: extract dir57787
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| 72 | Node: going further62149
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| 73 | Node: tar invocation62299
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| 74 | Node: Synopsis63795
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| 130 | Ref: --ignore-failed-read92594
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| 174 | Ref: --preserve-order102002
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| 175 | Ref: --preserve-permissions102066
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| 177 | Ref: --read-full-records102480
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| 179 | Ref: --recursion102776
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| 180 | Ref: --recursive-unlink102870
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| 181 | Ref: --remove-files103037
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| 184 | Ref: --rsh-command103512
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| 186 | Ref: --same-owner103926
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| 188 | Ref: --show-omitted-dirs104671
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| 189 | Ref: --show-transformed-names104824
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| 191 | Ref: --sparse105207
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| 197 | Ref: --test-label106363
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| 206 | Ref: --verbose107896
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| 207 | Ref: --verify108146
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| 209 | Ref: --volno-file108436
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| 210 | Ref: --wildcards108621
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| 211 | Ref: --wildcards-match-slash108741
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| 212 | Ref: Option Summary-Footnote-1108869
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| 213 | Ref: Option Summary-Footnote-2109087
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| 214 | Ref: Option Summary-Footnote-3109256
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| 228 | Node: Advanced tar128226
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| 229 | Node: Operations129071
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| 232 | Node: appending files134372
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| 233 | Node: multiple136153
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| 270 | Ref: Incremental Dumps-Footnote-1189757
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| 375 | Node: Generate Mode439555
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| 377 | Node: Exec Mode445651
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| 378 | Node: Free Software Needs Free Documentation447887
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| 379 | Node: Copying This Manual452858
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| 380 | Node: GNU Free Documentation License453140
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| 381 | Node: Index of Command Line Options475547
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