• smokey01.com

• verify the installed version via the command-line interface:

  tar --version

• filename extension: .tar

• internet media type: application/x-tar

• container types: gzip, bzip2, lzip, lzma, xz, lzop, compress

• extracting tar archives (tarballs):

  tar xfv file.EXTENSION

  (tar will, by default, extract the file according to its extension)

• creating a tar archive (tarball) without compression:

  tar cfv archivename.tar [dir...]

• creating a tar archive (tarball) with xz compression:

  tar cfJv archivename.txz [dir...]

• listing (viewing) the contents of a .txz or .tar.xz file without extracting:

  tar tf archivename.tar.xz

• http://www.gnu.org/software/tar

• http://www.t2-project.org/packages/tar.html

• http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Tar

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