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Looking Ahead: The Rest of this Manual
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   You have now seen how to use all eight of the operations available to
`tar', and a number of the possible options.  The next chapter explains
how to choose and change file and archive names, how to use files to
store names of other files which you can then call as arguments to
`tar' (this can help you save time if you expect to archive the same
list of files a number of times), and so forth.

   If there are too many files to conveniently list on the command line,
you can list the names in a file, and `tar' will read that file.
Note: files.

   There are various ways of causing `tar' to skip over some files, and
not archive them.  Note: Choosing.