Revision [19450]
This is an old revision of tar made by coolpup on 2011-11-12 09:12:19.
tar
file archivinghttp://www.gnu.org/software/tar
Source code distribution: ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/tar/
Binary code distribution:
- http://www.smokey01.com/coolpup/
./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
Verify the installed version via the command-line interface:
tar --version
Dependencies: +bzip2,+gettext,+gnutls,+grep
Extracting tar archives (tarballs):
tar xfv file.EXTENSION
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...]
To list (view) the contents of a .txz or .tar.xz file without extracting:
tar tf archivename.tar.xz
Filename extension: .tar
Internet media type: application/x-tar
Container types: gzip, bzip2, lzip, lzma, xz, lzop, compress
http://www.t2-project.org/packages/tar.html
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Tar
http://puppylinux.org/wikka/software
