tar

File archiving, storage & transportation

Software project home page: https://www.gnu.org/software/tar

Changelog: https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/tar/

Verify 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

Creating a tar archive (tarball) without compression

tar cfv archivename.tar [dir1] [dir2] ... [dirn]

Creating a tar archive (tarball) with xz compression

tar cfJv archivename.tar.xz [dir1] [dir2] ... [dirn]

Creating a software package tar archive (tarball) with xz compression

cd package_directory

tar cfJv ../PROGRAM_NAME-PROGRAM_VERSION-ARCH-GLIBC_VER-BUILD_TAG.txz *

Extracting tar archives (tarballs) that contain compression or not

tar xfv file.EXTENSION

Listing (viewing) the contents of an archive file without extracting

tar tf archivename.tar.xz

Configuration options for compiling

For 64-bit operating systems:

FORCE_UNSAFE_CONFIGURE=1 ./configure CPPFLAGS="-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2" CFLAGS="-march=x86-64 -mtune=generic -O2 -pipe -fstack-protector --param=ssp-buffer-size=4" CXXFLAGS="${CFLAGS}" --prefix=/usr --bindir=/bin --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var --libdir=/usr/lib64

References

http://www.t2-project.org/packages/tar.html
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Tar
https://partedmagic.com/docs/adding-programs

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