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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 Jun 22 00:50:46 2003
License: GNU General Public License v3 or later
Development Status: 5 - Production/Stable

 

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Tar 1.26
     posted by gray, Sat Mar 12 11:20:41 2011 - 0 replies

Tar 1.26 is available for download. Changes in this release:

  • Fix the --verify option, which broke in version 1.24.
  • Fix storing long sparse file names in PAX archives.
  • Fix correctness of --atime-preserve=replace
  • Work around POSIX incompatibilities on FreeBSD, NetBSD and Tru64
  • Fix bug with --one-file-system --listed-incremental
Tar 1.25
     posted by gray, Sun Nov 7 16:42:29 2010 - 0 replies

Tar 1.25 is available for download. This is mainly a bug-fix release addressing the bugs found in the previous version 1.24:

  • Fix extraction of empty directories with the -C option in effect.
  • Fix extraction of device nodes.
  • Make sure name matching occurs before eventual name transformation. ...

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Tar 1.24
     posted by gray, Sun Oct 24 22:56:57 2010 - 0 replies

GNU tar 1.24 is available for download. Main changes in this release:

  • The --full-time option.
  • More reliable directory traversal when creating archives
  • --dereference consistency.
  • Extracts symlink attributes, such as last-modified time and link permissions, if the operating system supports this. ...

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Tar 1.23
     posted by gray, Wed Mar 10 12:48:32 2010 - 0 replies

GNU tar 1.23 is available for download. Main changes in this release:

  • Improved record size autodetection
  • Use of lseek on seekable archives
  • New command line option --warning
  • New command line option --level
  • Improved behavior in case when some files were removed during incremental dumps ...

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