tar(1) [minix man page]

TAR(1)							      General Commands Manual							    TAR(1)

NAME

       tar - tape archiver

SYNOPSIS

       tar [Fcotvxp] [f] tarfile file ...

OPTIONS

       F      Force tar to continue after an error

       c      Create a new archive; add named files

       o      Set uid/gid to original values on extraction

       f      Next argument is name of tarfile

       t      Print a table listing the archive's contents

       v      Verbose mode-tell what is going on as it happens

       x      The named files are extracted from the archive

       p      Restore file modes, ignore creation mask

       D      Directory only, do not recurse

EXAMPLES

       tar c /dev/fd1 .    # Back up current directory to /dev/fd1

       tar xv /dev/fd1 file1 file2
			   # Extract two files from the archive

       tar cf - | (cd dest; tar xf -)
			   # Copy current directory to dest

DESCRIPTION

       Tar  is	a  POSIX-compatible archiver, except that it does not use tape.  It's primary advantage over ar is that the tar format is somewhat
       more standardized than the ar format, making it theoretically possible to transport MINIX files to another computer, but do not bet on  it.
       If the target machine runs MS-DOS , try doswrite .

SEE ALSO

       compress(1), vol(1).

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TAR(1)							      General Commands Manual							    TAR(1)

NAME

       tar - archiver

SYNOPSIS

       tar key [ file ...  ]

DESCRIPTION

       Tar  saves  and	restores  file trees.  It is most often used to transport a tree of files from one system to another.  The key is a string
       that contains at most one function letter plus optional modifiers.  Other arguments to the command are names of files or directories to	be
       dumped or restored.  A directory name implies all the contained files and subdirectories (recursively).

       The function is one of the following letters:

       c      Create a new archive with the given files as contents.

       x      Extract  the named files from the archive.  If a file is a directory, the directory is extracted recursively.  Modes are restored if
	      possible.  If no file argument is given, extract the entire archive.  If the archive contains multiple entries for a file, the  lat-
	      est one wins.

       t      List all occurrences of each file in the archive, or of all files if there are no file arguments.

       r      The named files are appended to the archive.

       The modifiers are:

       v      (verbose) Print the name of each file treated preceded by the function letter.  With t, give more details about the archive entries.

       f      Use  the	next  argument as the name of the archive instead of the default standard input (for keys x and t) or standard output (for
	      keys c and r).

       u      Use the next (numeric) argument as the user id for files in the output archive.  This is only useful when moving files to a non-Plan
	      9 system.

       g      Use the next (numeric) argument as the group id for files in the output archive.

EXAMPLES

       Tar can be used to copy hierarchies thus:

	      {cd fromdir; tar c .} | {cd todir; tar x}

SOURCE

       /sys/src/cmd/tar.c

SEE ALSO

       ar(1), bundle(1), tapefs(1)

BUGS

       There is no way to ask for any but the last occurrence of a file.
       File path names are limited to 100 characters.
       The tar format allows specification of links and symbolic links, concepts foreign to Plan 9: they are ignored.

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