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>tar (tape archiver)</TITLE
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NAME="GENERATOR"
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CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.7"><LINK
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REL="HOME"
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TITLE="GNU/Linux Command-Line Tools Summary"
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HREF="index.html"><LINK
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REL="UP"
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TITLE="Archiving Files"
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HREF="backing-up-files.html"><LINK
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REL="PREVIOUS"
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TITLE="Archiving Files"
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HREF="backing-up-files.html"><LINK
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TITLE="rsync"
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>GNU/Linux Command-Line Tools Summary</TH
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>Prev</A
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>Chapter 15. Archiving Files</TD
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NAME="TAR"
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>15.1. tar (tape archiver)</H1
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><P
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>Type <EM
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>tar</EM
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> then <EM
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>-option(s)</EM
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>Options list:</P
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>-c --- create.</P
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>-v --- verbose, give more output, show what files are being worked with (extracted or added).</P
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>-f --- file (create or extract from file) - should always be the last option otherwise the command will not work. </P
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>-z --- put the file though gzip or use gunzip on the file first.</P
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>-x --- extract the files from the tarball.</P
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>-p --- preserves dates, permissions of the original files.</P
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>-j --- send archive through bzip2.</P
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>--exclude=pattern --- this will stop certain files from being archived (using a standard wild-card pattern) or a single file name.</P
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>tar<EFBFBD>examples</DT
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>tar -cvpf name_of_file.tar files_to_be_backed_up</PRE
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>This would create a tape archive (no compressing).</P
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>tar -zxvpf my_tar_file.tar.gz</PRE
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>This would extract files (verbosely) from a gzipped tape archive.</P
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