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GNU tar
GNU tar is an archiver that creates and handles file archives in various formats. You can use tar to create file archives, to extract files from previously created archives, store additional files, or update or list files which were already stored.
The program saves many files together into a single tape or disk archive, and can restore individual files from the archive. It includes multivolume support, the ability to archive sparse files, automatic archive compression/decompression, remote archives and special features that allow 'tar' to be used for incremental and full backups.
The supported archive formats are: V7 tar, GNU, ustar and POSIX (also known as pax interchange format). GNU tar can also read and extract 'star' archives. Tar can direct its output to available devices, files, or other programs (using pipes); tar can even access remote devices or files (as archives).
Last updated 1 Feb, 2008
About
Leadership
- Sergey Poznyakoff - Maintainer
- Jeff Bailey - Maintainer
- Paul Eggert - Maintainer
- Jay Fenlason - Contributor
- Joy Kendall - Contributor
- Francois Pinard - Contributor
Related Projects
Afio, Cpio, Info-ZIP- UnZip branch, Paxutils, S tar, Sharutils, Z, dar
Subprograms
tar, rmt
Versions
1.17
1.17 stable released on 2007-06-08
- Released: 8 Jun, 2007
- Code Maturity: Stable
- Source Archive: http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/tar/tar-1.17.tar.gz
- Licenses: GPLv2
- Interfaces: Command Line
1.19
- Released: 10 Oct, 2007
- Code Maturity: Stable
- Source Archive: http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/tar/tar-1.19.shar.gz
- Licenses: GPLv3orlater
- Interfaces: Command Line
1.20
- Released: 14 Apr, 2008
- Code Maturity: Stable
- Source Archive: http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/tar/tar-1.20.tar.gz
- Licenses: GPLv3orlater
- Interfaces: Command Line
User Community and Support
User reference included; User reference manual available in Texinfo, DVI, PostScript, HTML, and plaintext formats from http://www.gnu.org/software/tar/manual/index.html
General Resources
Support Resources
Development
Developer Resources
- VCS Checkout Command:
:pserver:anoncvs@subversions.gnu.org:/cvsroot/tar co tar, - VCS Repository Webview
- VCS Repository Webview