GNU Tar

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GNU Tar is a widely used free software utility for creating, maintaining, modifying, and extracting files from archive files, especially on Unix-like systems.

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GNU tar 1
tar 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf GNU Project software
command-line utility
file archiver
free software
alsoKnownAs GNU Tar
surface form: tar
commandOption -J (xz compression)
-c (create)
-f (archive file)
-j (bzip2 compression)
-t (list)
-x (extract)
-z (gzip compression)
developer Free Software Foundation
GNU Project
distribution GNU Core Utilities
surface form: GNU core utilities ecosystem

most GNU/Linux distributions
fileFormat tar archive
homepage https://www.gnu.org/software/tar/
interface command-line interface
license GNU General Public License
operatingSystem BSD
Linux
Unix-like systems
macOS
primaryFunction create archive files
extract archive files
list archive contents
modify archive files
programmingLanguage C
softwareName GNU Tar self-linksurface differs
surface form: GNU tar
standardConformance POSIX tar
supportsCompression bzip2
compress
gzip
lzip
lzma
xz
zstd
supportsFeature GNU tar extended format
POSIX ustar format
checkpointing and resume
exclusion patterns
file ownership and permission preservation
incremental backups
long file name support
multi-volume archives
pattern-based file selection
pax interchange format
remote archives via rsh/ssh
sparse file handling
symbolic and hard link preservation
usedFor file and directory archiving
software distribution packaging
system backups

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GNU Tar alsoKnownAs GNU Tar
this entity surface form: tar
GNU Project hasPart GNU Tar
Paul Eggert notableWork GNU Tar
GNU Tar softwareName GNU Tar self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: GNU tar