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Table of Contents
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Tutorial Introduction to
tar- 2.1 Assumptions this Tutorial Makes
- 2.2 Stylistic Conventions
- 2.3 Basic
tarOperations and Options - 2.4 The Three Most Frequently Used Operations
- 2.5 Two Frequently Used Options
- 2.6 How to Create Archives
- 2.7 How to List Archives
- 2.8 How to Extract Members from an Archive
- 2.9 Going Further Ahead in this Manual
- 3 Invoking GNU
tar- 3.1 General Synopsis of
tar - 3.2 Using
tarOptions - 3.3 The Three Option Styles
- 3.4 All
tarOptions - 3.5 GNU
tardocumentation - 3.6 Obtaining GNU
tardefault values - 3.7 Checking
tarprogress - 3.8 Checkpoints
- 3.9 Controlling Warning Messages
- 3.10 Asking for Confirmation During Operations
- 3.11 Running External Commands
- 3.1 General Synopsis of
- 4 GNU
tarOperations- 4.1 Basic GNU
tarOperations - 4.2 Advanced GNU
tarOperations - 4.3 Options Used by ‘--create’
- 4.4 Options Used by ‘--extract’
- 4.4.1 Options to Help Read Archives
- 4.4.2 Changing How
tarWrites Files- Options Controlling the Overwriting of Existing Files
- Overwrite Old Files
- Keep Old Files
- Keep Newer Files
- Unlink First
- Recursive Unlink
- Setting Data Modification Times
- Setting Access Permissions
- Directory Modification Times and Permissions
- Writing to Standard Output
- Writing to an External Program
- Removing Files
- 4.4.3 Coping with Scarce Resources
- 4.5 Backup options
- 4.6 Notable
tarUsages - 4.7 Looking Ahead: The Rest of this Manual
- 4.1 Basic GNU
- 5 Performing Backups and Restoring Files
- 6 Choosing Files and Names for
tar- 6.1 Choosing and Naming Archive Files
- 6.2 Selecting Archive Members
- 6.3 Reading Names from a File
- 6.4 Excluding Some Files
- 6.5 Wildcards Patterns and Matching
- 6.6 Quoting Member Names
- 6.7 Modifying File and Member Names
- 6.8 Operating Only on New Files
- 6.9 Descending into Directories
- 6.10 Crossing File System Boundaries
- 7 Date input formats
- 7.1 General date syntax
- 7.2 Calendar date items
- 7.3 Time of day items
- 7.4 Time zone items
- 7.5 Combined date and time of day items
- 7.6 Day of week items
- 7.7 Relative items in date strings
- 7.8 Pure numbers in date strings
- 7.9 Seconds since the Epoch
- 7.10 Specifying time zone rules
- 7.11 Authors of
parse_datetime
- 8 Controlling the Archive Format
- 8.1 Using Less Space through Compression
- 8.2 Handling File Attributes
- 8.3 Making
tarArchives More Portable - 8.4 Comparison of
tarandcpio
- 9 Tapes and Other Archive Media
- 10 Reliability and Security
- Appendix A Changes
- Appendix B Configuring Help Summary
- Appendix C Fixing Snapshot Files
- Appendix D Tar Internals
- Appendix E Genfile
- Appendix F Free Software Needs Free Documentation
- Appendix G GNU Free Documentation License
- Appendix H Index of Command Line Options
- Appendix I Index
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