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Tutorial Introduction to `tar'
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   This chapter guides you through some basic examples of three `tar'
operations: `--create', `--list', and `--extract'.  If you already know
how to use some other version of `tar', then you may not need to read
this chapter.  This chapter omits most complicated details about how
`tar' works.

assumptions
stylistic conventions
basic tar options
Basic `tar' Operations and Options
frequent operations
Two Frequent Options
create
How to Create Archives
list
How to List Archives
extract
How to Extract Members from an Archive
going further

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