This is tar.info, produced by makeinfo version 5.9.93 from tar.texi.

This manual is for GNU 'tar' (version 1.31, 2 January 2019), which
creates and extracts files from archives.

   Copyright (C) 1992, 1994-1997, 1999-2001, 2003-2017 Free Software
Foundation, Inc.

     Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this
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     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
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* Tar: (tar).                   Making tape (or disk) archives.
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INFO-DIR-SECTION Individual utilities
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* tar: (tar)tar invocation.                     Invoking GNU 'tar'.
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Node: Tutorial20940
Node: assumptions21753
Node: stylistic conventions24227
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Node: Reliability456180
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Node: Race conditions458324
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Node: Recipes471582
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Node: PAX 0514485
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Node: Dumpdir524906
Node: Genfile528136
Node: Generate Mode529232
Node: Status Mode534472
Node: Exec Mode536274
Node: Free Software Needs Free Documentation539330
Node: GNU Free Documentation License544311
Node: Index of Command Line Options569486
Node: Index597785

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