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GNU tar - Creates tar archives

GNU tar is an archiver that creates and handles file archives in various formats. You can use tar to create file archives, to extract files from previously created archives, store additional files, or update or list files which were already stored.

The program saves many files together into a single tape or disk archive, and can restore individual files from the archive. It includes multivolume support, the ability to archive sparse files, automatic archive compression/decompression, remote archives and special features that allow 'tar' to be used for incremental and full backups.

The supported archive formats are: V7 tar, GNU, ustar and POSIX (also known as pax interchange format). GNU tar is also able to read and extract 'star' archives. Tar can direct its output to available devices, files, or other programs (using pipes); tar can even access remote devices or files (as archives).

Obtaining

Web page http://www.gnu.org/software/tar/
Source tarball http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/tar/tar-1.14.tar.gz
Source information http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/tar
Version 1.14 (stable) released on 2004-05-11

Licensed under The GNU General Public License, Version 2 or later.

This is a GNU package.

Documentation

User manual available in Texinfo, Dvi, Postscript, HTML, Plaintext formats from http://www.gnu.org/software/tar/manual/tar.html

Support contacts

Bug List

<bug-tar@gnu.org> <bug-tar@gnu.org> http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-tar

Project contacts

Maintainers	Sergey Poznyakoff <gray@farlep.net> Jeff Bailey <jbailey@nisa.net> Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Developers	John Gilmore Thomas Bushnell Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> Sergey Poznyakoff <gray@mirddin.farlep.net>
Contributors	Jay Fenlason Joy Kendall Francois Pinard <pinard@iro.umontreal.ca>

Related information

Source repository	:pserver:anoncvs@subversions.gnu.org:/cvsroot/tar login, :pserver:anoncvs@subversions.gnu.org:/cvsroot/tar co tar, http://savannah.gnu.org/cvs/?group=tar, http://savannah.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/tar/tar
Interfaces	command line
Programs	tar, rmt
Source languages	C
Related programs	Cpio

Entry information

License verified by	Janet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org> on 2001-02-01
Entry compiled by	Janet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org>

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