1This is tar.info, produced by makeinfo version 4.8 from tar.texi. 2 3 This manual is for GNU `tar' (version 1.17, 8 June 2007), which 4creates and extracts files from archives. 5 6 Copyright (C) 1992, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003, 72004, 2005, 2006, 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc. 8 9 Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this 10 document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, 11 Version 1.1 or any later version published by the Free Software 12 Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, with the Front-Cover Texts 13 being "A GNU Manual," and with the Back-Cover Texts as in (a) 14 below. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled 15 "GNU Free Documentation License". 16 17 (a) The FSF's Back-Cover Text is: "You are free to copy and modify 18 this GNU Manual. Buying copies from GNU Press supports the FSF in 19 developing GNU and promoting software freedom." 20 21INFO-DIR-SECTION Archiving 22START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY 23* Tar: (tar). Making tape (or disk) archives. 24END-INFO-DIR-ENTRY 25 26INFO-DIR-SECTION Individual utilities 27START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY 28* tar: (tar)tar invocation. Invoking GNU `tar'. 29END-INFO-DIR-ENTRY 30 31 32Indirect: 33tar.info-1: 1234 34tar.info-2: 301079 35 36Tag Table: 37(Indirect) 38Node: Top1234 39Node: Introduction10405 40Node: Book Contents11192 41Node: Definitions13364 42Node: What tar Does15167 43Node: Naming tar Archives17933 44Node: Authors18653 45Node: Reports20466 46Node: Tutorial20826 47Node: assumptions21639 48Node: stylistic conventions24114 49Node: basic tar options24557 50Node: frequent operations28195 51Node: Two Frequent Options28847 52Node: file tutorial29478 53Node: verbose tutorial30839 54Ref: verbose member listing33053 55Node: help tutorial35806 56Node: create36160 57Node: prepare for examples37661 58Node: Creating the archive39429 59Node: create verbose42261 60Node: short create43082 61Node: create dir45835 62Node: list48542 63Ref: listing member and file names49816 64Node: list dir52097 65Node: extract53086 66Node: extracting archives54263 67Node: extracting files54753 68Ref: extracting files-Footnote-157400 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Status Mode446293 380Node: Exec Mode448092 381Node: Free Software Needs Free Documentation450328 382Node: Copying This Manual455299 383Node: GNU Free Documentation License455581 384Node: Index of Command Line Options477988 385Node: Index500552 386 387End Tag Table 388