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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