tar

append tar files to an archive

Equivalent to the -c option

find differences between archive and file system

delete from the archive (not for use on mag tapes!)

Equivalent to the -r option.

Equivalent to the the -t option

Equivalent to the -u option

extract files from an archive

don't change access times on dumped files

Equivalent to the -b option

reblock as we read (for reading 4.2BSD pipes)

change to directory DIR

print directory names while reading the archive

use archive file or device F (default "-", meaning stdin/stdout).

archive file is local even if has a colon

run script at end of each tape (implies -M)

create/list/extract old GNU- incremental backup

create/list/extract new GNU- incremental backup

don't dump symlinks; dump the files they point to

ignore blocks of zeros in archive (normally mean EOF)

filter archive through bzip2, use to decompress .bz2 files

don't exit with non-zero status on unreadable files

keep existing files; don't overwrite them from archive

begin at file F in the archive

stay in local file system when creating an archive

change tapes after writing N*1024 bytes

Equivalent to the -m option

create/list/extract multi-volume archive

only store files newer than DATE

write a V7 archive, rather than ANSI . Note that for the -o option the behaviour is different than what is specified in the SUSv2

extract files to standard output

extract all protection information

don't strip leading /s from file names

Equvilent to -p -s

show record number within archive with each message

remove files after adding them to the archive

list of names to extract is sorted to match archive

create extracted files with the same ownership

handle sparse files efficiently

get names to extract or create from file F

-T reads null-terminated names, disable -C

print total bytes written with --create

Equivalent to the -v option

create archive with volume name NAME

print tar program version number

ask for confirmation for every action

attempt to verify the archive after writing it

exclude file FILE

exclude files listed in FILE

filter the archive through compress

filter the archive through gzip

filter the archive through PROG (which must accept -d)

block the output of compression program for tapes

specify drive and density