This is tar.info, produced by makeinfo version 4.13 from tar.texi.
-This manual is for GNU `tar' (version 1.25, 5 November 2010), which
+This manual is for GNU `tar' (version 1.26, 12 March 2011), which
creates and extracts files from archives.
Copyright (C) 1992, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003,
GNU tar: an archiver tool
*************************
-This manual is for GNU `tar' (version 1.25, 5 November 2010), which
+This manual is for GNU `tar' (version 1.26, 12 March 2011), which
creates and extracts files from archives.
Copyright (C) 1992, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003,
tutorial and manual for GNU `tar'. Franc,ois Pinard put version 1.11.8
of the manual together by taking information from all these sources and
merging them. Melissa Weisshaus finally edited and redesigned the book
-to create version 1.12. The book for versions from 1.14 up to 1.25
+to create version 1.12. The book for versions from 1.14 up to 1.26
were edited by the current maintainer, Sergey Poznyakoff.
For version 1.12, Daniel Hagerty contributed a great deal of
For example, here is an archive listing containing most of the
special suffixes explained above:
- V--------- 0/0 1536 2006-06-09 13:07 MyVolume--Volume Header--
- -rw-r--r-- gray/staff 456783 2006-06-09 12:06 aspic--Continued at
- byte 32456--
- -rw-r--r-- gray/staff 62373 2006-06-09 12:06 apple
- lrwxrwxrwx gray/staff 0 2006-06-09 13:01 angst -> apple
- -rw-r--r-- gray/staff 35793 2006-06-09 12:06 blues
- hrw-r--r-- gray/staff 0 2006-06-09 12:06 music link to blues
+ V--------- 0/0 1536 2006-06-09 13:07 MyVolume--Volume Header--
+ -rw-r--r-- gray/staff 456783 2006-06-09 12:06 aspic--Continued at byte 32456--
+ -rw-r--r-- gray/staff 62373 2006-06-09 12:06 apple
+ lrwxrwxrwx gray/staff 0 2006-06-09 13:01 angst -> apple
+ -rw-r--r-- gray/staff 35793 2006-06-09 12:06 blues
+ hrw-r--r-- gray/staff 0 2006-06-09 12:06 music link to blues
\1f
look like:
$ tar --list --verbose --file=collection.tar folk
- -rw-r--r-- myself user 62 1990-05-23 10:55 folk
+ -rw-r--r-- myself/user 62 1990-05-23 10:55 folk
It is important to notice that the output of `tar --list --verbose'
does not necessarily match that produced by `tar --create --verbose'
`tar' responds:
- drwxrwxrwx myself user 0 1990-05-31 21:49 practice/
- -rw-r--r-- myself user 42 1990-05-21 13:29 practice/blues
- -rw-r--r-- myself user 62 1990-05-23 10:55 practice/folk
- -rw-r--r-- myself user 40 1990-05-21 13:30 practice/jazz
- -rw-r--r-- myself user 10240 1990-05-31 21:49 practice/collection.tar
+ drwxrwxrwx myself/user 0 1990-05-31 21:49 practice/
+ -rw-r--r-- myself/user 42 1990-05-21 13:29 practice/blues
+ -rw-r--r-- myself/user 62 1990-05-23 10:55 practice/folk
+ -rw-r--r-- myself/user 40 1990-05-21 13:30 practice/jazz
+ -rw-r--r-- myself/user 10240 1990-05-31 21:49 practice/collection.tar
When you use a directory name as a file name argument, `tar' acts on
all the files (including sub-directories) in that directory.
produces this:
- -rw-r--r-- me user 28 1996-10-18 16:31 jazz
- -rw-r--r-- me user 21 1996-09-23 16:44 blues
- -rw-r--r-- me user 20 1996-09-23 16:44 folk
+ -rw-r--r-- me/user 28 1996-10-18 16:31 jazz
+ -rw-r--r-- me/user 21 1996-09-23 16:44 blues
+ -rw-r--r-- me/user 20 1996-09-23 16:44 folk
\1f
File: tar.info, Node: extracting files, Next: extract dir, Prev: extracting archives, Up: extract
example below:
$ tar -xvvf music.tar practice/folk practice/jazz
- -rw-r--r-- me user 28 1996-10-18 16:31 practice/jazz
- -rw-r--r-- me user 20 1996-09-23 16:44 practice/folk
+ -rw-r--r-- me/user 28 1996-10-18 16:31 practice/jazz
+ -rw-r--r-- me/user 20 1996-09-23 16:44 practice/folk
Because you created the directory with `practice' as part of the file
names of each of the files by archiving the `practice' directory as
`--level=N'
Force incremental backup of level N. As of GNU `tar' version
- 1.25, the option `--level=0' truncates the snapshot file, thereby
+ 1.26, the option `--level=0' truncates the snapshot file, thereby
forcing the level 0 dump. Other values of N are effectively
ignored. *Note --level=0::, for details and examples.
standard output, and then exit successfully. For example,
`tar --version' might print:
- tar (GNU tar) 1.25
+ tar (GNU tar) 1.26
Copyright (C) 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
Copyright (C) 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
`Ignoring unknown extended header keyword `%s''
decompress-program
- Controls verbose messages describing execution failures when trying
- alternative decompressor programs (*note alternative decompression
- programs::). This warning is disabled by default (unless
- `--verbose' is used). A common example of what you can get when
- using this warning is:
+ Controls verbose description of failures occurring when trying to
+ run alternative decompressor programs (*note alternative
+ decompression programs::). This warning is disabled by default
+ (unless `--verbose' is used). A common example of what you can get
+ when using this warning is:
$ tar --warning=decompress-program -x -f archive.Z
tar (child): cannot run compress: No such file or directory
has been added to the archive:
$ tar --list --file=collection.tar
- -rw-r--r-- me user 28 1996-10-18 16:31 jazz
- -rw-r--r-- me user 21 1996-09-23 16:44 blues
- -rw-r--r-- me user 20 1996-09-23 16:44 folk
- -rw-r--r-- me user 20 1996-09-23 16:44 rock
+ -rw-r--r-- me/user 28 1996-10-18 16:31 jazz
+ -rw-r--r-- me/user 21 1996-09-23 16:44 blues
+ -rw-r--r-- me/user 20 1996-09-23 16:44 folk
+ -rw-r--r-- me/user 20 1996-09-23 16:44 rock
\1f
File: tar.info, Node: multiple, Prev: appending files, Up: append
contents of the archive:
$ tar --list --verbose --file=collection.tar
- -rw-r--r-- me user 28 1996-10-18 16:31 jazz
- -rw-r--r-- me user 21 1996-09-23 16:44 blues
- -rw-r--r-- me user 20 1996-09-23 16:44 folk
- -rw-r--r-- me user 20 1996-09-23 16:44 rock
- -rw-r--r-- me user 58 1996-10-24 18:30 blues
+ -rw-r--r-- me/user 28 1996-10-18 16:31 jazz
+ -rw-r--r-- me/user 21 1996-09-23 16:44 blues
+ -rw-r--r-- me/user 20 1996-09-23 16:44 folk
+ -rw-r--r-- me/user 20 1996-09-23 16:44 rock
+ -rw-r--r-- me/user 58 1996-10-24 18:30 blues
The newest version of `blues' is now at the end of the archive (note
the different creation dates and file sizes). If you extract the
example:
$ tar --extract -vv --occurrence --file=collection.tar blues
- -rw-r--r-- me user 21 1996-09-23 16:44 blues
+ -rw-r--r-- me/user 21 1996-09-23 16:44 blues
*Note Writing::, for more information on `--extract' and see *note
-occurrence: Option Summary, for a description of `--occurrence' option.
what they are supposed to:
$ tar -tvf bluesrock.tar
- -rw-r--r-- melissa user 105 1997-01-21 19:42 blues
- -rw-r--r-- melissa user 33 1997-01-20 15:34 rock
+ -rw-r--r-- melissa/user 105 1997-01-21 19:42 blues
+ -rw-r--r-- melissa/user 33 1997-01-20 15:34 rock
$ tar -tvf jazzfolk.tar
- -rw-r--r-- melissa user 20 1996-09-23 16:44 folk
- -rw-r--r-- melissa user 65 1997-01-30 14:15 jazz
+ -rw-r--r-- melissa/user 20 1996-09-23 16:44 folk
+ -rw-r--r-- melissa/user 65 1997-01-30 14:15 jazz
We can concatenate these two archives with `tar':
systems: `CVS', `RCS', `SCCS', `SVN', `Arch', `Bazaar',
`Mercurial', and `Darcs'.
- As of version 1.25, the following files are excluded:
+ As of version 1.26, the following files are excluded:
* `CVS/', and everything under it
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