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1 .Dd October 8, 2015
2 .Dt TAR 1
3 .Os sbase
4 .Sh NAME
5 .Nm tar
6 .Nd create, list or extract a tape archive
7 .Sh SYNOPSIS
8 .Nm
9 .Cm x | Cm t | Fl x | Fl t
10 .Op Fl C Ar dir
11 .Op Fl J | Fl Z | Fl a | Fl j | Fl z
12 .Op Fl m
13 .Op Fl p
14 .Op Fl f Ar file
15 .Op Ar file ...
16 .Nm
17 .Cm c | Fl c Op Fl C Ar dir
18 .Op Fl J | Fl Z | Fl a | Fl j | Fl z
19 .Op Fl h
20 .Ar path ...
21 .Op Fl f Ar file
22 .Sh DESCRIPTION
23 .Nm
24 is the standard file archiver.
25 .Sh OPTIONS
26 .Bl -tag -width Ds
27 .It Fl c Ar path ...
28 Create archive from
29 .Ar path .
30 .It Fl C Ar dir
31 Change directory to
32 .Ar dir
33 before beginning.
34 .It Fl f Ar file
35 Set
36 .Ar file
37 as input | output archive instead of stdin | stdout.
38 If '-', stdin | stdout is used.
39 .It Fl m
40 Do not preserve modification time.
41 .It Fl t
42 List all files in the archive.
43 .It Fl x
44 Extract archive.
45 .It Fl h
46 Always dereference symbolic links while recursively traversing directori…
47 .It Fl J | Fl Z | Fl a | Fl j | Fl z
48 Use xz | compress | lzma | bzip2 | gzip compression or decompression.
49 These utilities must be installed separately.
50 Using these flags is discouraged in favour of the flexibility
51 and clarity of pipes:
52 .Bd -literal -offset indent
53 $ bzip2 -cd archive.tar.bz2 | tar -x
54 $ gzip -cd archive.tar.gz | tar -x
55 .Ed
56 .Bd -literal -offset indent
57 $ tar -c file ... | bzip2 > archive.tar.bz2
58 $ tar -c file ... | gzip2 > archive.tar.gz
59 .Ed
60 .El
61 .Sh SEE ALSO
62 .Xr ar 1 ,
63 .Xr bzip2 1 ,
64 .Xr gzip 1
65 .Sh STANDARDS
66 The
67 .Nm
68 utility is compliant with the UStar (Uniform Standard Tape ARchive)
69 format defined in the
70 .St -p1003.1-88
71 specification. For long file paths (>99 bytes), the UStar, 'L' and 'x'
72 header formats are supported for reading (to a maximum size of PATH_MAX
73 or 255 bytes, depending on format), and the 'L' format is supported for
74 writing (with unlimited path size). Link targets are limited to the
75 UStar maximum of 100 bytes.
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