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.\"
.\" Written by John F. Woods <jfw@jfwhome.funhouse.com>
.\"
.\" $NetBSD: tar.1,v 1.21 2002/02/04 10:35:39 fair Exp $
.\" $NetBSD: tar.1,v 1.22 2002/02/06 19:24:52 wiz Exp $
.\"
.Dd August 6, 1994
.Os
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.Sh DESCRIPTION
.Nm
is short for
.Dq tape archiver,
.Dq tape archiver ,
so named for historical reasons; the
.Nm
program creates, adds files to, or extracts files from an archive file
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Modifies behavior of
.Fl T
to expect null-terminated names; disables
.Fl C.
.Fl C .
.It Fl -totals
Prints total bytes written with
.Fl -create .
@ -324,6 +324,39 @@ Don't recurse into subdirectories when creating.
.It Fl -unlink
Unlink files before creating them.
.El
.Sh ENVIRONMENT
The
.Nm
program examines the following environment variables:
.Bl -tag -width "POSIXLY-CORRECT"
.It Ev POSIXLY-CORRECT
Normally,
.Nm
will process flag arguments that appear in the file list.
If set in the environment, this flag causes
.Nm
to consider the first
non-flag argument to terminate flag processing, as per the POSIX specification.
.It Ev SHELL
In interactive mode, a permissible response to the prompt is to
request to spawn a subshell, which will be
.Pa /bin/sh
unless the
.Ev SHELL
variable is set.
.It Ev TAPE
Changes the default tape drive (which is still overridden by the
.Fl f
flag).
.El
.Sh FILES
.Bl -tag -width "/dev/rst0"
.It Pa /dev/rst0
The default tape drive.
.El
.\" This next request is for sections 1, 6, 7 & 8 only
.\" (command return values (to shell) and fprintf/stderr type diagnostics)
.\" .Sh DIAGNOSTICS
.Sh EXAMPLES
To create an archive on tape drive
.Pa /dev/rst0
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(note that this can't be done by simply typing
.Dl cat archive2.tar >> archive1.tar
because of the end-of-file block at the end of a tar archive).
.Sh ENVIRONMENT
The
.Nm
program examines the following environment variables:
.Bl -tag -width "POSIXLY-CORRECT"
.It Ev POSIXLY-CORRECT
Normally,
.Nm
will process flag arguments that appear in the file list.
If set in the environment, this flag causes
.Nm
to consider the first
non-flag argument to terminate flag processing, as per the POSIX specification.
.It Ev SHELL
In interactive mode, a permissible response to the prompt is to
request to spawn a subshell, which will be
.Pa /bin/sh
unless the
.Ev SHELL
variable is set.
.It Ev TAPE
Changes the default tape drive (which is still overridden by the
.Fl f
flag).
.El
.Sh FILES
.Bl -tag -width "/dev/rst0"
.It Pa /dev/rst0
The default tape drive.
.El
.\" This next request is for sections 1, 6, 7 & 8 only
.\" (command return values (to shell) and fprintf/stderr type diagnostics)
.\" .Sh DIAGNOSTICS
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr bzip2 1 ,
.Xr compress 1 ,
.Xr cpio 1 ,
.Xr gzip 1 ,
.Xr pax 1 ,
.Xr cpio 1 ,
.Xr symlink 7 ,
.Xr rmt 8
.\" .Sh STANDARDS