tar.1 (1487B)
1 .Dd October 8, 2015 2 .Dt TAR 1 3 .Os sbase 4 .Sh NAME 5 .Nm tar 6 .Nd create, list or extract a tape archive 7 .Sh SYNOPSIS 8 .Nm 9 .Op Fl C Ar dir 10 .Op Fl J | Fl Z | Fl a | Fl j | Fl z 11 .Fl x Op Fl m | Fl t 12 .Op Fl f Ar file 13 .Op Ar file ... 14 .Nm 15 .Op Fl C Ar dir 16 .Op Fl J | Fl Z | Fl a | Fl j | Fl z 17 .Op Fl h 18 .Fl c Ar path ... 19 .Op Fl f Ar file 20 .Sh DESCRIPTION 21 .Nm 22 is the standard file archiver. 23 .Sh OPTIONS 24 .Bl -tag -width Ds 25 .It Fl c Ar path ... 26 Create archive from 27 .Ar path . 28 .It Fl C Ar dir 29 Change directory to 30 .Ar dir 31 before beginning. 32 .It Fl f Ar file 33 Set 34 .Ar file 35 as input | output archive instead of stdin | stdout. 36 If '-', stdin | stdout is used. 37 .It Fl m 38 Do not preserve modification time. 39 .It Fl t 40 List all files in the archive. 41 .It Fl x 42 Extract archive. 43 .It Fl h 44 Always dereference symbolic links while recursively traversing directories. 45 .It Fl J | Fl Z | Fl a | Fl j | Fl z 46 Use xz | compress | lzma | bzip2 | gzip compression or decompression. 47 These utilities must be installed separately. 48 Using these flags is discouraged in favour of the flexibility 49 and clarity of pipes: 50 .Bd -literal -offset indent 51 $ bzip2 -cd archive.tar.bz2 | tar -x 52 $ gzip -cd archive.tar.gz | tar -x 53 .Ed 54 .Bd -literal -offset indent 55 $ tar -c file ... | bzip2 > archive.tar.bz2 56 $ tar -c file ... | gzip2 > archive.tar.gz 57 .Ed 58 .El 59 .Sh SEE ALSO 60 .Xr ar 1 , 61 .Xr bzip2 1 , 62 .Xr gzip 1 63 .Sh STANDARDS 64 The 65 .Nm 66 utility is compliant with the UStar (Uniform Standard Tape ARchive) 67 format defined in the 68 .St -p1003.1-88 69 specification.