GNU tar - basic tar options Go to the first , previous , next , last section, table of contents . Basic tar Operations and Options tar can take a wide variety of arguments which specify and define the actions it will have on the particular set of files or the archive.
People sometimes speak of operating modes .
The other arguments fall into the class known as options . We will discuss them in this chapter. In discussions in the text, when we name an option by its long form, we also give the corresponding short option in parentheses. Again, use context to figure out which of the meanings the speaker intends. Go to the first , previous , next , last section, table of contents .