tar: Operation Summary

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1 3.4.1 Operations
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1 '--append'
1 '-r'
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1      Appends files to the end of the archive.  ⇒append.
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1 '--catenate'
1 '-A'
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1      Same as '--concatenate'.  ⇒concatenate.
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1 '--compare'
1 '-d'
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1      Compares archive members with their counterparts in the file
1      system, and reports differences in file size, mode, owner,
1      modification date and contents.  ⇒compare.
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1 '--concatenate'
1 '-A'
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11      Appends other 'tar' archives to the end of the archive.  ⇒
      concatenate.
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1 '--create'
1 '-c'
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1      Creates a new 'tar' archive.  ⇒create.
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1 '--delete'
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1      Deletes members from the archive.  Don't try this on an archive on
1      a tape!  ⇒delete.
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1 '--diff'
1 '-d'
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1      Same '--compare'.  ⇒compare.
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1 '--extract'
1 '-x'
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11      Extracts members from the archive into the file system.  ⇒
      extract.
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1 '--get'
1 '-x'
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1      Same as '--extract'.  ⇒extract.
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1 '--list'
1 '-t'
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1      Lists the members in an archive.  ⇒list.
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1 '--update'
1 '-u'
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1      Adds files to the end of the archive, but only if they are newer
1      than their counterparts already in the archive, or if they do not
1      already exist in the archive.  ⇒update.
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