tar: Short Option Summary
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1 3.4.3 Short Options Cross Reference
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1 Here is an alphabetized list of all of the short option forms, matching
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1 Short Option Reference
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1 -A ⇒--concatenate.
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1 -B ⇒--read-full-records.
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1 -C ⇒--directory.
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1 -F ⇒--info-script.
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1 -G ⇒--incremental.
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1 -J ⇒--xz.
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1 -K ⇒--starting-file.
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1 -L ⇒--tape-length.
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1 -M ⇒--multi-volume.
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1 -N ⇒--newer.
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1 -O ⇒--to-stdout.
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1 -P ⇒--absolute-names.
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1 -R ⇒--block-number.
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1 -S ⇒--sparse.
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1 -T ⇒--files-from.
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1 -U ⇒--unlink-first.
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1 -V ⇒--label.
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1 -W ⇒--verify.
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1 -X ⇒--exclude-from.
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1 -Z ⇒--compress.
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1 -b ⇒--blocking-factor.
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1 -c ⇒--create.
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1 -d ⇒--compare.
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1 -f ⇒--file.
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1 -g ⇒--listed-incremental.
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1 -h ⇒--dereference.
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1 -i ⇒--ignore-zeros.
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1 -j ⇒--bzip2.
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1 -k ⇒--keep-old-files.
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1 -l ⇒--check-links.
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1 -m ⇒--touch.
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1 -o When creating, ⇒--no-same-owner, when extracting
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1 The latter usage is deprecated. It is retained for
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1 In future releases '-o' will be equivalent to
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1 -p ⇒--preserve-permissions.
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1 -r ⇒--append.
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1 -s ⇒--same-order.
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1 -t ⇒--list.
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1 -u ⇒--update.
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1 -v ⇒--verbose.
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1 -w ⇒--interactive.
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1 -x ⇒--extract.
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1 -z ⇒--gzip.
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