tar: looking ahead
1
1 4.6 Looking Ahead: The Rest of this Manual
1 ==========================================
1
1 You have now seen how to use all eight of the operations available to
1 'tar', and a number of the possible options. The next chapter explains
1 how to choose and change file and archive names, how to use files to
1 store names of other files which you can then call as arguments to 'tar'
1 (this can help you save time if you expect to archive the same list of
1 files a number of times), and so forth.
1
1 If there are too many files to conveniently list on the command line,
11 you can list the names in a file, and 'tar' will read that file. ⇒
files.
1
1 There are various ways of causing 'tar' to skip over some files, and
1 not archive them. ⇒Choosing.
1