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.
Statements (54)
| 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
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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
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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
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software distribution packaging ⓘ system backups ⓘ |
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this entity surface form:
tar
this entity surface form:
GNU tar