1This is tar.info, produced by makeinfo version 6.7 from tar.texi. 2 3This manual is for GNU 'tar' (version 1.34, 4 February 2021), which 4creates and extracts files from archives. 5 6 Copyright (C) 1992, 1994-1997, 1999-2001, 2003-2017, 2021 Free 7Software 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 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software 12 Foundation; with the Invariant Sections being "GNU General Public 13 License", with the Front-Cover Texts being "A GNU Manual", and with 14 the Back-Cover Texts as in (a) below. A copy of the license is 15 included in the section entitled "GNU Free Documentation License". 16 17 (a) The FSF's Back-Cover Text is: "You have the freedom to copy and 18 modify this GNU manual." 19INFO-DIR-SECTION Archiving 20START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY 21* Tar: (tar). Making tape (or disk) archives. 22END-INFO-DIR-ENTRY 23 24INFO-DIR-SECTION Individual utilities 25START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY 26* tar: (tar)tar invocation. Invoking GNU 'tar'. 27END-INFO-DIR-ENTRY 28 29 30Indirect: 31tar.info-1: 1143 32tar.info-2: 303321 33 34Tag Table: 35(Indirect) 36Node: Top1143 37Node: Introduction10488 38Node: Book Contents11275 39Node: Definitions13447 40Node: What tar Does15250 41Node: Naming tar Archives18017 42Node: Authors18738 43Node: Reports20551 44Node: Tutorial20908 45Node: assumptions21721 46Node: stylistic conventions24195 47Node: basic tar options24638 48Node: frequent operations28277 49Node: Two Frequent Options28927 50Node: file tutorial29558 51Node: verbose tutorial30916 52Ref: verbose member listing33130 53Node: help tutorial35898 54Node: create36253 55Node: prepare for examples37691 56Node: Creating the archive39460 57Node: create verbose43047 58Node: short create43867 59Node: create dir46602 60Node: list49310 61Ref: listing member and file names50845 62Node: list dir53464 63Node: extract54476 64Node: extracting archives55590 65Node: extracting files56095 66Ref: extracting files-Footnote-157981 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