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This is an old revision of tar made by coolpup on 2011-09-24 05:32:22.

 

tar

archive management software package

Verify the installed version via the command-line interface:
tar --version

Dependencies: +bzip2,+gettext,+grep

./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

Extracting tar archives (tar by default will extract the file according to its extension):
tar xfv file.EXTENSION

Creating tar archives (without compression):
tar cfv archivename.tar [dir...]

To create an archive of a directory with XZUtils xz compression:
tar cfJv archivename.txz [dir...]

To list (view) the contents of a .txz or .tar.xz file without extracting:
tar tf archivename.tar.xz
http://www.qa.com/about-qa/blogs/2010/april/getting-to-know-xz-as-the-best-compression-tool

Filename extension: .tar
Internet media type: application/x-tar
Container types: gzip, bzip2, lzip, lzma, xz, lzop, compress

http://www.gnu.org/software/tar
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/tar/
http://www.t2-project.org/packages/tar.html
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Tar
http://puppylinux.org/wikka/software



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