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tar
This chapter guides you through some basic examples of three tar
operations: --create, --list, and --extract. If
you already know how to use some other version of tar
, then you
may not need to read this chapter. This chapter omits most complicated
details about how tar
works.
• assumptions | ||
• stylistic conventions | ||
• basic tar options | Basic tar Operations and Options
| |
• frequent operations | ||
• Two Frequent Options | ||
• create | How to Create Archives | |
• list | How to List Archives | |
• extract | How to Extract Members from an Archive | |
• going further |