Revision [10694]
This is an old revision of tar made by coolpup on 2010-11-12 07:31:15.
Verify the currently installed version by entering the following into the command-line interface:
tar --version
tar-1.25-20101109.pet
./configure FORCE_UNSAFE_CONFIGURE=1 CFLAGS="-mtune=generic -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CXXFLAGS="${CFLAGS}" --prefix=/ --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var --host=i486-pc-linux-gnu --enable-backup-scripts && make && make checkExtracting tar archives (tar by default will extract the file according to its extension):
tar xfv file.EXTENSION
Creating tar archives:
tar cfv archive.tar [dir...]
To create an archive of a directory with XZUtils xz compression:
tar cfJv file.tar.xz [dir...]
Filename extension: .tar
Internet media type: application/x-tar
Containers: gzip, bzip2, lzip, lzma, xz, lzop, compress
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/tar/
http://www.t2-project.org/packages/tar.html
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Tar
