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Advanced GNU `tar' Operations
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   Now that you have learned the basics of using GNU `tar', you may
want to learn about further ways in which `tar' can help you.

   This chapter presents five, more advanced operations which you
probably won't use on a daily basis, but which serve more specialized
functions.  We also explain the different styles of options and why you
might want to use one or another, or a combination of them in your `tar'
commands.  Additionally, this chapter includes options which allow you
to define the output from `tar' more carefully, and provide help and
error correction in special circumstances.

Operations

current state

append

update

concatenate

delete

compare