tar.1 (802B)
1 .TH TAR 1 sbase\-VERSION 2 .SH NAME 3 tar \- create, list or extract a tape archive 4 .SH SYNOPSIS 5 .B tar 6 .RB [ \-f 7 .IR tarfile] 8 .RB [ \-C 9 .IR dir ] 10 .RB [ - ] x | t 11 12 .B tar 13 .RB [ \-f 14 .IR tarfile] 15 .RB [ \-C 16 .IR dir ] 17 .RB [ - ] c 18 .I dir 19 20 .B tar 21 .RB [ \-C 22 .IR dir ] 23 .B cf 24 .I tarfile 25 .I dir 26 27 .B tar 28 .RB [ \-C 29 .IR dir ] 30 .B x|tf 31 .I tarfile 32 33 .SH DESCRIPTION 34 .B tar 35 is the standard file archiver. Generally the archives 36 created with it are further compressed. 37 .SH OPTIONS 38 .TP 39 .B x 40 extract tarball from stdin 41 .TP 42 .B t 43 list all files in tarball from stdin 44 .TP 45 .BI c\ path 46 creates tarball from 47 .I path 48 and prints it to stdout 49 .TP 50 .BI f\ tarfile 51 Make 52 .I tarfile 53 be the archive, rather than stdin or stdout. 54 .TP 55 .BI C\ dir 56 Change dierctory to 57 .I dir 58 before beginning. 59 .SH SEE ALSO 60 .IR ar (1) 61 .IR gzip (1) 62 .IR bzip2 (1)