NAME
tar - tape archiver
SYNOPSIS
tar [Fcotvxp] [f] tarfile file ...
OPTIONS
F Force tar to continue after an error
c Create a new archive; add named files
o Set uid/gid to original values on extraction
f Next argument is name of tarfile
t Print a table listing the archive's contents
v Verbose mode-tell what is going on as it happens
x The named files are extracted from the archive
p Restore file modes, ignore creation mask
D Directory only, do not recurse
EXAMPLES
tar c /dev/fd1 . # Back up current directory to /dev/fd1
tar xv /dev/fd1 file1 file2
# Extract two files from the archive
tar cf - . | (cd dest; tar xf -)
# Copy current directory to dest
DESCRIPTION
Tar is a POSIX-compatible archiver, except that it does not
use tape. It's primary advantage over ar is that the tar
format is somewhat more standardized than the ar format,
making it theoretically possible to transport MINIX 3 files
to another computer, but do not bet on it. If the target
machine runs MS-DOS , try doswrite .
SEE ALSO
compress(1), vol(1).