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====tar====
file archiving

http://www.gnu.org/software/tar

Source code distribution: ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/tar/

Binary code distribution:
- http://distro.ibiblio.org/quirky/pet_packages-wary5/
- http://www.smokey01.com/coolpup/ %%(language-ref)./configure FORCE_UNSAFE_CONFIGURE=1 CFLAGS="-mtune=generic -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CXXFLAGS="${CFLAGS}" --prefix=/ --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var --host=i486-pc-linux-gnu --enable-backup-scripts%%

Verify the installed version via the command-line interface:
%%
tar --version
%%
Dependencies: +[[bzip2]],+[[gettext]],+[[gnutls]],+[[grep]]

Extracting tar archives (tarballs):
%%tar xfv file.EXTENSION%% (tar will, by default, extract the file according to its extension)

Creating a tar archive (tarball) without compression:
%%tar cfv archivename.tar [dir...]%%
Creating a tar archive (tarball) with [[xz]] compression:
%%tar cfJv archivename.txz [dir...]%%
Listing (viewing) the contents of a //.txz// or //.tar.xz// file without extracting:
%%tar tf archivename.tar.xz%%
Filename extension: //.tar//
Internet media type: //application/x-tar//
Container types: //gzip, bzip2, lzip, lzma, xz, lzop, compress//

http://www.t2-project.org/packages/tar.html
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Tar
http://puppylinux.org/wikka/software


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