tar: PuppyLinux

tar

file archiving

software package tar | home page | source code

verify the installed version via the command-line interface:
```
tar --version
```

filename extension: .tar

internet media type: application/x-tar

container types: gzip, bzip2, lzip, lzma, xz, lzop, compress

listing (viewing) the contents of a .txz or .tar.xz file without extracting:
```
tar tf archivename.tar.xz
```

extracting tar archives (tarballs):
```
tar xfv file.EXTENSION
```
(tar will, by default, extract the file according to its extension which denotes the compression in use)

creating a tar archive (tarball) without compression:
```
tar cfv archivename.tar [dir...]
```

creating a tar archive (tarball) with xz compression:
```
tar cfJv archivename.txz [dir...]
```

creating a software package tar archive (tarball) with xz compression:
```
 cd packagename
```
```
tar cfJv ../packagename.txz *
```

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Tar

http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/development/chapter06/tar.html

https://t2sde.org/packages/tar.html

dependencies: +bzip2,+coreutils,+grep

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