This is tar.info, produced by makeinfo version 4.13 from tar.texi.

This manual is for GNU `tar' (version 1.27, 24 September 2013), which
creates and extracts files from archives.

   Copyright (C) 1992, 1994-1997, 1999-2001, 2003-2013 Free Software
Foundation, Inc.

     Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this
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     with the Back-Cover Texts as in (a) below.  A copy of the license
     is included in the section entitled "GNU Free Documentation
     License".

     (a) The FSF's Back-Cover Text is: "You have the freedom to copy
     and modify this GNU manual."

INFO-DIR-SECTION Archiving
START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY
* Tar: (tar).                   Making tape (or disk) archives.
END-INFO-DIR-ENTRY

INFO-DIR-SECTION Individual utilities
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* tar: (tar)tar invocation.                     Invoking GNU `tar'.
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Node: Book Contents11240
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Node: Authors18701
Node: Reports20514
Node: Tutorial20871
Node: assumptions21684
Node: stylistic conventions24159
Node: basic tar options24602
Node: frequent operations28240
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Node: Tape Positioning401192
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Node: Reliability428475
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Node: Data corruption and repair429692
Node: Race conditions430618
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Node: Privacy432961
Node: Integrity434210
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Node: Security rules of thumb438761
Node: Changes440290
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Node: Fixing Snapshot Files450406
Node: Tar Internals453775
Node: Standard454107
Node: Extensions476308
Node: Sparse Formats478868
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Node: PAX 0482559
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Node: Dumpdir492998
Node: Genfile496244
Node: Generate Mode497337
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Node: Free Software Needs Free Documentation506177
Node: GNU Free Documentation License511159
Node: Index of Command Line Options536372
Node: Index562228

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