This is tar.info, produced by Makeinfo version 3.12f from tar.texi. START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY * tar: (tar). Making tape (or disk) archives. END-INFO-DIR-ENTRY This file documents GNU `tar', a utility used to store, backup, and transport files. Copyright (C) 1992, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1999 Free Software Foundation, Inc. Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of this manual provided the copyright notice and this permission notice are preserved on all copies. Permission is granted to copy and distribute modified versions of this manual under the conditions for verbatim copying, provided that the entire resulting derived work is distributed under the terms of a permission notice identical to this one. Permission is granted to copy and distribute translations of this manual into another language, under the above conditions for modified versions, except that this permission notice may be stated in a translation approved by the Foundation. This file documents GNU `tar', which is a utility used to store, backup, and transport files. `tar' is a tape (or disk) archiver. This manual documents the release 1.13. Indirect: tar.info-1: 1167 tar.info-2: 49886 tar.info-3: 96814 tar.info-4: 142517 tar.info-5: 191978 tar.info-6: 237228 tar.info-7: 282918 tar.info-8: 328377 Tag Table: (Indirect) Node: Top1167 Node: Introduction7517 Node: Book Contents8238 Node: Definitions10433 Node: What tar Does12227 Node: Naming tar Archives14987 Node: posix compliance15711 Node: Authors16674 Node: Reports18104 Node: Tutorial18351 Node: assumptions19163 Node: stylistic conventions21658 Node: basic tar options22278 Node: frequent operations25912 Node: Two Frequent Options26558 Node: file tutorial27184 Node: verbose tutorial28296 Node: help tutorial30030 Node: create30384 Node: prepare for examples31880 Node: Creating the archive33597 Node: create verbose36362 Node: short create37174 Node: create dir40119 Node: list42704 Node: list dir45220 Node: extract46288 Node: extracting archives47451 Node: extracting files47948 Node: extract dir49886 Node: failing commands51797 Node: going further52855 Node: tar invocation52997 Node: Synopsis54501 Node: using tar options58938 Node: Styles61089 Node: Mnemonic Options62537 Node: Short Options64384 Node: Old Options66240 Node: Mixing69350 Node: All Options71831 Node: Operation Summary72430 Node: Option Summary73698 Node: Short Option Summary85446 Node: help86720 Node: verbose90365 Node: interactive94503 Node: operations96578 Node: Basic tar96814 Node: Advanced tar100288 Node: Operations101147 Node: current state103124 Node: append103527 Node: appending files106092 Node: multiple107872 Node: update110260 Node: how to update111262 Node: concatenate113048 Node: delete116379 Node: compare118361 Node: extract options120006 Node: Reading120910 Node: read full records122535 Node: Ignore Zeros122887 Node: Ignore Failed Read123924 Node: Writing124129 Node: Prevention Overwriting124540 Node: Keep Old Files127024 Node: Unlink First127548 Node: Recursive Unlink127794 Node: Modification Times129075 Node: Setting Access Permissions129856 Node: Writing to Standard Output130484 Node: remove files131566 Node: Scarce131755 Node: Starting File131991 Node: Same Order132836 Node: backup133672 Node: Applications137427 Node: looking ahead138684 Node: Backups139501 Node: Full Dumps142517 Node: Inc Dumps148137 Node: incremental and listed-incremental150228 Node: Backup Levels154197 Node: Backup Parameters156826 Node: backup-specs example159205 Node: Script Syntax160124 Node: Scripted Backups160862 Node: Scripted Restoration162660 Node: Choosing164245 Node: file165187 Node: Selecting Archive Members168702 Node: files170042 Node: nul171641 Node: exclude173028 Node: problems with exclude174364 Node: Wildcards176558 Node: after179612 Node: recurse182922 Node: one184718 Node: directory186349 Node: absolute189027 Node: Date input formats191978 Node: General date syntax194390 Node: Calendar date item195862 Node: Time of day item197811 Node: Timezone item199581 Node: Day of week item202866 Node: Relative item in date strings203844 Node: Pure numbers in date strings205769 Node: Authors of getdate206747 Node: Formats207478 Node: Portability208014 Node: Portable Names209140 Node: dereference209840 Node: old211223 Node: posix212304 Node: Checksumming222590 Node: Compression224472 Node: gzip224776 Node: sparse231666 Node: Attributes237228 Node: Standard242327 Node: Extensions264856 Node: cpio267402 Node: Media272146 Node: Device274072 Node: Remote Tape Server278682 Node: Common Problems and Solutions282534 Node: Blocking282918 Node: Format Variations289525 Node: Blocking Factor290471 Node: Many302378 Node: Tape Positioning306168 Node: mt308039 Node: Using Multiple Tapes309873 Node: Multi-Volume Archives314969 Node: Tape Files319053 Node: label320523 Node: verify324607 Node: Write Protection327556 Node: Index328377 End Tag Table