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12 %%short-description: Creates tar archives
15 GNU tar is an archiver that creates and handles file archives in various
16 formats. You can use tar to create file archives, to extract files from
17 previously created archives, store additional files, or update or list
18 files which were already stored.
20 The program saves many files together into a single tape or disk
21 archive, and can restore individual files from the archive. It
22 includes multivolume support, the ability to archive sparse files,
23 automatic archive compression/decompression, remote archives and
24 special features that allow 'tar' to be used for incremental and full
27 The supported archive formats are: V7 tar, GNU, ustar and POSIX (also
28 known as pax interchange format). GNU tar is also able to read and
29 extract 'star' archives.
31 Tar can direct its output to available devices, files, or other
32 programs (using pipes); tar can even access remote devices or files
35 %%category: system, backup
39 %%maintainer: Sergey Poznyakoff <gray@Mirddin.farlep.net>,
40 Jeff Bailey <jbailey@nisa.net>,
41 Paul Eggert <eggert@CS.UCLA.EDU>
43 %%updated: 21 Dec 2004
45 %%keywords: archive, backup, tar, pax
47 %%interface: Command line
53 %%web-page: http://www.gnu.org/software/tar
55 %%doc: English user reference included
57 %%doc: English user manual in Texinfo, Dvi, Postscript, HTML, Plaintext is available from http://www.gnu.org/software/tar/manual/tar.html
62 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>,
63 Sergey Poznyakoff <gray@Mirddin.farlep.net>
65 %%contributors: Jay Fenlason,
67 Francois Pinard <pinard@iro.umontreal.ca>
69 %%source-tarball: ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/tar/tar-1.15.1.tar.gz
70 %%source-info: http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/tar
73 :pserver:anoncvs@subversions.gnu.org:/cvsroot/tar login,
74 :pserver:anoncvs@subversions.gnu.org:/cvsroot/tar co tar,
75 http://savannah.gnu.org/cvs/?group=tar,
76 http://savannah.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/tar/tar,
80 %%related-programs: GNU cpio
82 %%version: 1.15.1 (stable) released on 21 Dec 2004
84 %%bug-list: bug-tar@gnu.org bug-tar@gnu.org http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-tar
86 %%entry-written-by: Sergey Poznyakoff <gray@gnu.org>