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2 Tutorial Introduction to tar

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 this Tutorial Makes
• Stylistic Conventions
• Basic tar Operations and Options
• The Three Most Frequently Used Operations
• Two Frequently Used Options
• How to Create Archives
• How to List Archives
• How to Extract Members from an Archive
• Going Further Ahead in this Manual