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This project is part of the GNU Project.

GNU Tar is an archiver program. It is used to create and manipulate files that are actually collections of many other files; the program provides users with an organized and systematic method of controlling a large amount of data.

Despite its name, that is an acronym of "tape archiver", GNU Tar is able to direct its output to any available devices, files or other programs, it may as well access remote devices or files.

The main areas of usage for GNU Tar are: storage, backup and transportation.

Registration Date: Sun 22 Jun 2003 12:50:46 AM UTC
License: GNU General Public License v3 or later
Development Status: 5 - Production/Stable

 

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Migration to Git
     posted by gray, Sat 07 Mar 2009 03:53:35 PM UTC - 0 replies

Tar's repository has migrated from CVS to GIT. See http://savannah.gnu.org/git/?group=tar for additional information.

Tar 1.22
     posted by gray, Thu 05 Mar 2009 08:06:19 AM UTC - 0 replies

GNU tar 1.22 is available for download. Main changes in this release:

  • Support for xz compression (--xz option)
  • Short option -J is reassigned as a shortcut for --xz.
  • The option -I is a shortcut for --use-compress-program
  • The --no-recursive option works with --incremental.
Tar 1.21
     posted by gray, Fri 26 Dec 2008 11:22:59 PM UTC - 0 replies

GNU tar 1.21 is available for download from ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/tar.

New in this version:

  • New short option -J, a shortcut for --lzma.
  • New option --lzop
  • New option --no-auto-compress

Cancels the effect of previous --auto-compress (-a) option. ...


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Tar 1.20
     posted by gray, Mon 14 Apr 2008 02:33:01 PM UTC - 0 replies

GNU tar 1.20 is available for download from ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/tar.

New in this version:

  • New option --auto-compress (-a)

With --create, selects compression algorithm basing on the suffix of the archive file name.

  • New option --lzma ...

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