minix man page for tar

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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