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  1. This is Info file tar.info, produced by Makeinfo version 1.67 from the
  2. input file tar.texi.
  3. START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY
  4. * tar: (tar).            Making tape (or disk) archives.
  5. END-INFO-DIR-ENTRY
  6.    This file documents GNU `tar', a utility used to store, backup, and
  7. transport files.
  8.    Copyright (C) 1992, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997 Free Software Foundation,
  9.    Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of this
  10. manual provided the copyright notice and this permission notice are
  11. preserved on all copies.
  12.    Permission is granted to copy and distribute modified versions of
  13. this manual under the conditions for verbatim copying, provided that
  14. the entire resulting derived work is distributed under the terms of a
  15. permission notice identical to this one.
  16.    Permission is granted to copy and distribute translations of this
  17. manual into another language, under the above conditions for modified
  18. versions, except that this permission notice may be stated in a
  19. translation approved by the Foundation.
  20.    This file documents GNU `tar', which is a utility used to store,
  21. backup, and transport files.  `tar' is a tape (or disk) archiver.  This
  22. manual documents the release 1.12.
  23. Indirect:
  24. tar.info-1: 1185
  25. tar.info-2: 49912
  26. tar.info-3: 96843
  27. tar.info-4: 142543
  28. tar.info-5: 192003
  29. tar.info-6: 237086
  30. tar.info-7: 282776
  31. tar.info-8: 328236
  32. Tag Table:
  33. (Indirect)
  34. Node: Top
  35. Node: Introduction
  36. Node: Book Contents
  37. Node: Definitions
  38. 10449
  39. Node: What tar Does
  40. 12243
  41. Node: Naming tar Archives
  42. 15003
  43. Node: posix compliance
  44. 15727
  45. Node: Authors
  46. 16690
  47. Node: Reports
  48. 18120
  49. Node: Tutorial
  50. 18380
  51. Node: assumptions
  52. 19192
  53. Node: stylistic conventions
  54. 21685
  55. Node: basic tar options
  56. 22305
  57. Node: frequent operations
  58. 25939
  59. Node: Two Frequent Options
  60. 26585
  61. Node: file tutorial
  62. 27211
  63. Node: verbose tutorial
  64. 28323
  65. Node: help tutorial
  66. 30057
  67. Node: create
  68. 30411
  69. Node: prepare for examples
  70. 31907
  71. Node: Creating the archive
  72. 33624
  73. Node: create verbose
  74. 36388
  75. Node: short create
  76. 37200
  77. Node: create dir
  78. 40145
  79. Node: list
  80. 42730
  81. Node: list dir
  82. 45246
  83. Node: extract
  84. 46314
  85. Node: extracting archives
  86. 47477
  87. Node: extracting files
  88. 47974
  89. Node: extract dir
  90. 49912
  91. Node: failing commands
  92. 51823
  93. Node: going further
  94. 52881
  95. Node: tar invocation
  96. 53023
  97. Node: Synopsis
  98. 54526
  99. Node: using tar options
  100. 58963
  101. Node: Styles
  102. 61114
  103. Node: Mnemonic Options
  104. 62562
  105. Node: Short Options
  106. 64409
  107. Node: Old Options
  108. 66266
  109. Node: Mixing
  110. 69377
  111. Node: All Options
  112. 71859
  113. Node: Operation Summary
  114. 72458
  115. Node: Option Summary
  116. 73726
  117. Node: Short Option Summary
  118. 85474
  119. Node: help
  120. 86748
  121. Node: verbose
  122. 90394
  123. Node: interactive
  124. 94532
  125. Node: operations
  126. 96607
  127. Node: Basic tar
  128. 96843
  129. Node: Advanced tar
  130. 100319
  131. Node: Operations
  132. 101178
  133. Node: current state
  134. 103155
  135. Node: append
  136. 103558
  137. Node: appending files
  138. 106123
  139. Node: multiple
  140. 107903
  141. Node: update
  142. 110290
  143. Node: how to update
  144. 111292
  145. Node: concatenate
  146. 113077
  147. Node: delete
  148. 116407
  149. Node: compare
  150. 118389
  151. Node: extract options
  152. 120034
  153. Node: Reading
  154. 120938
  155. Node: read full records
  156. 122563
  157. Node: Ignore Zeros
  158. 122914
  159. Node: Ignore Failed Read
  160. 123951
  161. Node: Writing
  162. 124156
  163. Node: Prevention Overwriting
  164. 124567
  165. Node: Keep Old Files
  166. 127051
  167. Node: Unlink First
  168. 127575
  169. Node: Recursive Unlink
  170. 127821
  171. Node: Modification Times
  172. 129102
  173. Node: Setting Access Permissions
  174. 129883
  175. Node: Writing to Standard Output
  176. 130511
  177. Node: remove files
  178. 131593
  179. Node: Scarce
  180. 131782
  181. Node: Starting File
  182. 132018
  183. Node: Same Order
  184. 132863
  185. Node: backup
  186. 133699
  187. Node: Applications
  188. 137453
  189. Node: looking ahead
  190. 138710
  191. Node: Backups
  192. 139527
  193. Node: Full Dumps
  194. 142543
  195. Node: Inc Dumps
  196. 148163
  197. Node: incremental and listed-incremental
  198. 150254
  199. Node: Backup Levels
  200. 154223
  201. Node: Backup Parameters
  202. 156852
  203. Node: backup-specs example
  204. 159231
  205. Node: Script Syntax
  206. 160150
  207. Node: Scripted Backups
  208. 160888
  209. Node: Scripted Restoration
  210. 162686
  211. Node: Choosing
  212. 164271
  213. Node: file
  214. 165213
  215. Node: Selecting Archive Members
  216. 168728
  217. Node: files
  218. 170068
  219. Node: nul
  220. 171667
  221. Node: exclude
  222. 173054
  223. Node: problems with exclude
  224. 174390
  225. Node: Wildcards
  226. 176583
  227. Node: after
  228. 179637
  229. Node: recurse
  230. 182947
  231. Node: one
  232. 184743
  233. Node: directory
  234. 186374
  235. Node: absolute
  236. 189052
  237. Node: Date input formats
  238. 192003
  239. Node: General date syntax
  240. 194415
  241. Node: Calendar date item
  242. 195887
  243. Node: Time of day item
  244. 197836
  245. Node: Timezone item
  246. 199438
  247. Node: Day of week item
  248. 202723
  249. Node: Relative item in date strings
  250. 203701
  251. Node: Pure numbers in date strings
  252. 205626
  253. Node: Authors of getdate
  254. 206604
  255. Node: Formats
  256. 207335
  257. Node: Portability
  258. 207871
  259. Node: Portable Names
  260. 208997
  261. Node: dereference
  262. 209697
  263. Node: old
  264. 211080
  265. Node: posix
  266. 212161
  267. Node: Checksumming
  268. 222447
  269. Node: Compression
  270. 224329
  271. Node: gzip
  272. 224633
  273. Node: sparse
  274. 231523
  275. Node: Attributes
  276. 237086
  277. Node: Standard
  278. 242185
  279. Node: Extensions
  280. 264714
  281. Node: cpio
  282. 267260
  283. Node: Media
  284. 272004
  285. Node: Device
  286. 273930
  287. Node: Remote Tape Server
  288. 278540
  289. Node: Common Problems and Solutions
  290. 282392
  291. Node: Blocking
  292. 282776
  293. Node: Format Variations
  294. 289383
  295. Node: Blocking Factor
  296. 290329
  297. Node: Many
  298. 302236
  299. Node: Tape Positioning
  300. 306026
  301. Node: mt
  302. 307897
  303. Node: Using Multiple Tapes
  304. 309731
  305. Node: Multi-Volume Archives
  306. 314827
  307. Node: Tape Files
  308. 318911
  309. Node: label
  310. 320381
  311. Node: verify
  312. 324466
  313. Node: Write Protection
  314. 327415
  315. Node: Index
  316. 328236
  317. End Tag Table
  318.