gnutar(1)
NAME
gnutar - emulates the GNU version of the tar archiver
SYNOPSIS
gnutar command [ options ] file1 ... filen
DESCRIPTION
Arrayarchive file known as a tarfile. A tarfile may be made on a tape drive, however, it is also common to write a tarfile to a normal file. The first argument to gnutar must be one of the options:
Acdrtux
to gnutar are the names of the files or directories which should
be archived. The use of a directory name always implies that the
subdirectories below should be included in the archive.
COMMAND
One of the following commands must be used:
- Array-x, --extract, --get
- extract files from an archive
OPTIONS
- Array-K, --starting-file F
- begin at file F in the archive
- -l, --one-file-system
- stay in local file system when creating an archive
- -L, --tape-length N
- change tapes after writing N*1024 bytes
- -m, --modification-time
- don't extract file modified time
- -M, --multi-volume
- create/list/extract multi-volume archive
- -N, --after-date DATE, --newer DATE
- only store files newer than DATE
- -o, --old-archive, --portability
- write a V7 format archive, rather than ANSI format
- -O, --to-stdout
- extract files to standard output
- -p, --same-permissions, --preserve-permissions
- extract all protection information
- -P, --absolute-paths
- don't strip leading `/'s from file names
- --preserve
- like -p -s.
- -R, --record-number
- show record number within archive with each message
- --remove-files
- remove files after adding them to the archive
- -s, --same-order, --preserve-order
- list of names to extract is sorted to match archive
- --same-owner
- create extracted files with the same ownership
- -S, --sparse
- handle sparse files efficiently
- -T, --files-from= F
- get names to extract or create from file F
- --null
- -T reads null-terminated names, disable -C
- --totals
- print total bytes written with --create
- -v, --verbose
- verbosely list files processed
- -V, --label NAME
- create archive with volume name NAME
- --version
- print gnutar program version number
- -w, --interactive, --confirmation
- ask for confirmation for every action
- -W, --verify
- attempt to verify the archive after writing it
- --exclude FILE
- exclude file FILE
- -X, --exclude-from FILE
- exclude files listed in FILE
- -Z, --compress, --uncompress
- filter the archive through compress
- -z, --gzip, --ungzip
- filter the archive through gzip
- --use-compress-program PROG
- filter the archive through PROG (which must accept
- -d)
EXTENDED OPTIONS
The extended options are options taken from star.
Array--acl handle access control lists
Array--time print timing info
- --no-statistics
- do not print statistics
- --fifostats
- print fifo statistics
- --no-fifo
- don't use a fifo to optimize data flow from/to tape
- --numeric
- don't use user/group name from tape
- The options above are not defined by GNU tar.
- For a complete documentation of the star based optione
- check star(1).
EXAMPLES ENVIRONMENT FILES SEE ALSO
Arraystar(1), star(4/5), rcmd(3), fssnap(1m)
DIAGNOSTICS NOTES
Arraytar program.
BUGS AUTHOR
Joerg Schilling
Seestr. 110
D-13353 Berlin
Germany
Mail bugs and suggestions to:
ArrayJoerg Schilling 04/09/26