tar: PuppyLinux

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tar

file archiving

software package tar

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

dependencies: +bzip2,+gettext,+gnutls,+grep

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)

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 *
```

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

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