| Index Entry | Section |
|---|
|
| % |
|---|
| ‘%s: Directory has been renamed from %s’, warning message: | Incremental Extraction Warnings |
| ‘%s: Directory has been renamed’, warning message: | Incremental Extraction Warnings |
| ‘%s: Directory is new’, warning message: | Incremental Extraction Warnings |
| ‘%s: directory is on a different device: not purging’, warning message: | Incremental Extraction Warnings |
| ‘%s: skipping existing file’, warning message: | Archive Extraction Warnings |
|
| - |
|---|
| –after-date and –update compared: | after |
| –newer-mtime and –update compared: | after |
| –quite, option: | Generate Mode |
|
| . |
|---|
.bzrignore: | exclude |
.cvsignore: | exclude |
.gitignore: | exclude |
.hgignore: | exclude |
|
| A |
|---|
| ‘A lone zero block at’, warning message: | General Warnings |
| abbreviations for months: | Calendar date items |
| absolute file names: | absolute |
| absolute file names: | Remote Tape Server |
| Adding archives to an archive: | concatenate |
| Adding files to an Archive: | appending files |
ADMINISTRATOR: | General-Purpose Variables |
| Age, excluding files by: | after |
ago in date strings: | Relative items in date strings |
all: | Warning Classes |
alone-zero-block: | General Warnings |
| alternative decompression programs: | gzip |
am in date strings: | Time of day items |
| Appending files to an Archive: | appending files |
| appending files to existing archive: | append |
| Arch, excluding files: | exclude |
| archive: | Definitions |
| ‘archive cannot contain itself; not dumped’, warning message: | Archive Creation Warnings |
| Archive creation: | file |
| archive member: | Definitions |
| Archive Name: | file |
| Archive, creation of: | create |
| Archives, Appending files to: | appending files |
| archives, binary equivalent: | PAX keywords |
| Archiving Directories: | create dir |
| archiving files: | Top |
ARGP_HELP_FMT, environment variable: | Configuring Help Summary |
| arguments to long options: | Long Options |
| arguments to old options: | Old Options |
| arguments to short options: | Short Options |
| attributes, files: | Attributes |
authors of parse_datetime: | Authors of parse_datetime |
| Avoiding recursion in directories: | recurse |
|
| B |
|---|
| backup options: | backup |
| backup suffix: | backup |
| backups: | backup |
| backups: | Backups |
BACKUP_DIRS: | General-Purpose Variables |
BACKUP_FILES: | General-Purpose Variables |
BACKUP_HOUR: | General-Purpose Variables |
bad-dumpdir: | Incremental Extraction Warnings |
| basic operations: | Operations |
| Bazaar, excluding files: | exclude |
| Bazaar, ignore files: | exclude |
| beginning of time, for POSIX: | Seconds since the Epoch |
bell, checkpoint action: | checkpoints |
| Bellovin, Steven M.: | Authors of parse_datetime |
| Berets, Jim: | Authors of parse_datetime |
| Berry, K.: | Authors of parse_datetime |
| binary equivalent archives, creating: | PAX keywords |
| block: | Blocking |
| Block number where error occurred: | verbose |
BLOCKING: | General-Purpose Variables |
| Blocking Factor: | Blocking Factor |
| blocking factor: | Blocking Factor |
| Blocks per record: | Blocking Factor |
| bug reports: | Reports |
| Bytes per record: | Blocking Factor |
| bzip2: | gzip |
|
| C |
|---|
cachedir: | Archive Creation Warnings |
| calendar date item: | Calendar date items |
| calendar, in dates: | General date syntax |
| calendar, in dates: | General date syntax |
| case, ignored in dates: | General date syntax |
cat vs concatenate: | concatenate |
| Changing directory mid-stream: | directory |
| Character class, excluding characters from: | wildcards |
| checkpoints, defined: | checkpoints |
| Choosing an archive file: | file |
| combined date and time of day item: | Combined date and time of day items |
| comments, in dates: | General date syntax |
| compress: | gzip |
| Compressed archives: | gzip |
concatenate vs cat: | concatenate |
| Concatenating Archives: | concatenate |
| ‘contains a cache directory tag’, warning message: | Archive Creation Warnings |
contiguous-cast: | Archive Extraction Warnings |
| corrupted archives: | Full Dumps |
| corrupted archives: | gzip |
| Creation of the archive: | create |
| ‘Current %s is newer or same age’, warning message: | Archive Extraction Warnings |
| CVS, excluding files: | exclude |
| CVS, ignore files: | exclude |
|
| D |
|---|
| Darcs, excluding files: | exclude |
| DAT blocking: | Blocking Factor |
| Data Modification time, excluding files by: | after |
| Data modification times of extracted files: | Data Modification Times |
| date and time of day format, ISO 8601: | Combined date and time of day items |
| date format, ISO 8601: | Calendar date items |
| date input formats: | Date input formats |
day in date strings: | Relative items in date strings |
day in date strings: | Relative items in date strings |
| day of week item: | Day of week items |
decompress-program: | Archive Extraction Warnings |
| Deleting files from an archive: | delete |
| Deleting from tape archives: | delete |
| dereferencing hard links: | hard links |
| Descending directories, avoiding: | recurse |
| Device numbers, changing: | Fixing Snapshot Files |
| Device numbers, using in incremental backups: | Incremental Dumps |
| Directories, Archiving: | create dir |
| Directories, avoiding recursion: | recurse |
| Directory, changing mid-stream: | directory |
DIRLIST: | General-Purpose Variables |
| displacement of dates: | Relative items in date strings |
doc-opt-col: | Configuring Help Summary |
| ‘door ignored’, warning message: | Archive Creation Warnings |
dot, checkpoint action: | checkpoints |
| Double-checking a write operation: | verify |
| dumps, full: | Full Dumps |
DUMP_BEGIN: | User Hooks |
DUMP_END: | User Hooks |
DUMP_REMIND_SCRIPT: | General-Purpose Variables |
dup-args: | Configuring Help Summary |
dup-args-note: | Configuring Help Summary |
|
| E |
|---|
echo, checkpoint action: | checkpoints |
| Eggert, Paul: | Authors of parse_datetime |
empty-transform: | General Warnings |
| End-of-archive blocks, ignoring: | Ignore Zeros |
| End-of-archive info script: | Multi-Volume Archives |
| entry: | Naming tar Archives |
| Epoch, for POSIX: | Seconds since the Epoch |
| Error message, block number of: | verbose |
| Exabyte blocking: | Blocking Factor |
exclude: | exclude |
exclude-caches: | exclude |
exclude-from: | exclude |
exclude-tag: | exclude |
| Excluding characters from a character class: | wildcards |
| Excluding file by age: | after |
| Excluding files by file system: | exclude |
| Excluding files by name and pattern: | exclude |
Exec Mode, genfile: | Exec Mode |
exec, checkpoint action: | checkpoints |
| existing backup method: | backup |
existing-file: | Archive Extraction Warnings |
| exit status: | Synopsis |
| ‘Extracting contiguous files as regular files’, warning message: | Archive Extraction Warnings |
| extracting nth copy of the file: | append |
| extraction: | Definitions |
| Extraction: | extract |
|
| F |
|---|
| file archival: | Top |
| file attributes: | Attributes |
| ‘file changed as we read it’, warning message: | Archive Creation Warnings |
| ‘file is on a different filesystem’, warning message: | Archive Creation Warnings |
| ‘file is unchanged; not dumped’, warning message: | Archive Creation Warnings |
| File lists separated by NUL characters: | Generate Mode |
| file name: | Definitions |
| File Name arguments, alternatives: | files |
| File name arguments, using --list with: | list |
| ‘file name read contains nul character’, warning message: | General Warnings |
| ‘file name read contains nul character’, warning message: | General Warnings |
| file names, absolute: | absolute |
| File names, excluding files by: | exclude |
File names, terminated by NUL: | nul |
| File names, using hard links: | hard links |
| File names, using symbolic links: | dereference |
| ‘File removed before we read it’, warning message: | Archive Creation Warnings |
| ‘File shrank by %s bytes’, warning message: | Archive Creation Warnings |
| File system boundaries, not crossing: | one |
file-changed: | Archive Creation Warnings |
file-ignored: | Archive Creation Warnings |
file-removed: | Archive Creation Warnings |
file-shrank: | Archive Creation Warnings |
file-unchanged: | Archive Creation Warnings |
FILELIST: | General-Purpose Variables |
filename-with-nuls: | General Warnings |
filename-with-nuls: | General Warnings |
find, using with tar: | files |
find, using with tar: | recurse |
first in date strings: | General date syntax |
| format 0, snapshot file: | Snapshot Files |
| format 1, snapshot file: | Snapshot Files |
| format 2, snapshot file: | Snapshot Files |
| Format Options: | Format Variations |
| Format Parameters: | Format Variations |
| Format, old style: | old |
fortnight in date strings: | Relative items in date strings |
| full dumps: | Full Dumps |
| future time stamps: | Large or Negative Values |
|
| G |
|---|
| general date syntax: | General date syntax |
Generate Mode, genfile: | Generate Mode |
| genfile: | Genfile |
genfile, create file: | Generate Mode |
genfile, creating sparse files: | Generate Mode |
genfile, generate mode: | Generate Mode |
genfile, reading a list of file names: | Generate Mode |
genfile, seeking to a given offset: | Generate Mode |
| Getting program version number: | help |
| git, excluding files: | exclude |
| Git, ignore files: | exclude |
| GNU archive format: | gnu |
GNU.sparse.major, extended header variable: | PAX 1 |
GNU.sparse.map, extended header variable: | PAX 0 |
GNU.sparse.minor, extended header variable: | PAX 1 |
GNU.sparse.name, extended header variable: | PAX 0 |
GNU.sparse.name, extended header variable, in v.1.0: | PAX 1 |
GNU.sparse.numblocks, extended header variable: | PAX 0 |
GNU.sparse.numbytes, extended header variable: | PAX 0 |
GNU.sparse.offset, extended header variable: | PAX 0 |
GNU.sparse.realsize, extended header variable: | PAX 1 |
GNU.sparse.size, extended header variable: | PAX 0 |
| gnupg, using with tar: | gzip |
| gpg, using with tar: | gzip |
| gzip: | gzip |
|
| H |
|---|
| hard links, dereferencing: | hard links |
header-col: | Configuring Help Summary |
| hole detection: | sparse |
hook: | User Hooks |
hour in date strings: | Relative items in date strings |
|
| I |
|---|
ignore-archive: | Archive Creation Warnings |
ignore-newer: | Archive Extraction Warnings |
| Ignoring end-of-archive blocks: | Ignore Zeros |
| ‘Ignoring unknown extended header keyword '%s'’, warning message: | Archive Extraction Warnings |
| ‘implausibly old time stamp %s’, warning message: | Archive Extraction Warnings |
| Info script: | Multi-Volume Archives |
| Interactive operation: | interactive |
| ISO 8601 date and time of day format: | Combined date and time of day items |
| ISO 8601 date format: | Calendar date items |
| items in date strings: | General date syntax |
|
| L |
|---|
| Labeling an archive: | label |
| labeling archives: | Tape Files |
| Labeling multi-volume archives: | label |
| Labels on the archive media: | label |
| language, in dates: | General date syntax |
| language, in dates: | General date syntax |
| Large lists of file names on small machines: | Same Order |
| large values: | Large or Negative Values |
last day: | Day of week items |
last in date strings: | General date syntax |
| Laszlo Ersek: | lbzip2 |
| lbzip2: | lbzip2 |
| leap seconds: | General date syntax |
| leap seconds: | Time of day items |
| leap seconds: | Seconds since the Epoch |
Listing all tar options: | help |
| listing member and file names: | list |
| Listing volume label: | label |
| Lists of file names: | files |
| Local and remote archives: | file |
| long options: | Long Options |
| long options with mandatory arguments: | Long Options |
| long options with optional arguments: | Long Options |
long-opt-col: | Configuring Help Summary |
| lzip: | gzip |
| lzma: | gzip |
| lzop: | gzip |
|
| M |
|---|
| MacKenzie, David: | Authors of parse_datetime |
| ‘Malformed dumpdir: 'X' never used’, warning message: | Incremental Extraction Warnings |
| member: | Definitions |
| member name: | Definitions |
| members, multiple: | multiple |
| Members, replacing with other members: | append |
| Mercurial, excluding files: | exclude |
| Mercurial, ignore files: | exclude |
| Meyering, Jim: | Authors of parse_datetime |
| Middle of the archive, starting in the: | Starting File |
midnight in date strings: | Time of day items |
minute in date strings: | Relative items in date strings |
| minutes, time zone correction by: | Time of day items |
missing-zero-blocks: | General Warnings |
| Modes of extracted files: | Setting Access Permissions |
| Modification time, excluding files by: | after |
| Modification times of extracted files: | Data Modification Times |
month in date strings: | Relative items in date strings |
| month names in date strings: | Calendar date items |
| months, written-out: | General date syntax |
MT: | General-Purpose Variables |
MT_BEGIN: | Magnetic Tape Control |
MT_OFFLINE: | Magnetic Tape Control |
MT_REWIND: | Magnetic Tape Control |
MT_STATUS: | Magnetic Tape Control |
| Multi-volume archives: | Multi-Volume Archives |
| Multi-volume archives in PAX format, extracting using non-GNU tars: | Split Recovery |
| Multi-volume archives, extracting using non-GNU tars: | Split Recovery |
| multiple members: | multiple |
|
| N |
|---|
| Naming an archive: | file |
| negative time stamps: | Large or Negative Values |
new-directory: | Incremental Extraction Warnings |
next day: | Day of week items |
next in date strings: | General date syntax |
none: | Warning Classes |
noon in date strings: | Time of day items |
now in date strings: | Relative items in date strings |
ntape device: | Many |
NUL-terminated file names: | nul |
| Number of blocks per record: | Blocking Factor |
| Number of bytes per record: | Blocking Factor |
| numbered backup method: | backup |
| numbers, written-out: | General date syntax |
|
| O |
|---|
| Obtaining help: | help |
| Obtaining total status information: | verbose |
| Old GNU archive format: | gnu |
| Old GNU sparse format: | Old GNU Format |
| old option style: | Old Options |
| old options with mandatory arguments: | Old Options |
| Old style archives: | old |
| Old style format: | old |
opt-doc-col: | Configuring Help Summary |
| option syntax, traditional: | Old Options |
| optional arguments to long options: | Long Options |
| optional arguments to short options: | Short Options |
| options for use with --extract: | extract options |
| Options when reading archives: | Reading |
| Options, archive format specifying: | Format Variations |
| Options, format specifying: | Format Variations |
| options, GNU style: | Long Options |
| options, long style: | Long Options |
| options, mixing different styles: | Mixing |
| options, mnemonic names: | Long Options |
| options, old style: | Old Options |
| options, short style: | Short Options |
| options, traditional: | Short Options |
| ordinal numbers: | General date syntax |
| Overwriting old files, prevention: | Dealing with Old Files |
|
| P |
|---|
parse_datetime: | Date input formats |
pattern, genfile: | Generate Mode |
| PAX archive format: | posix |
| Permissions of extracted files: | Setting Access Permissions |
| Pinard, F.: | Authors of parse_datetime |
pm in date strings: | Time of day items |
| portable archives: | Portability |
| POSIX archive format: | posix |
| Progress information: | verbose |
| Protecting old files: | Dealing with Old Files |
| pure numbers in date strings: | Pure numbers in date strings |
|
| R |
|---|
| RCS, excluding files: | exclude |
| Reading file names from a file: | files |
| Reading incomplete records: | Reading |
| record: | Blocking |
| Record Size: | Blocking Factor |
| ‘Record size = %lu blocks’, warning message: | Archive Extraction Warnings |
record-size: | Archive Extraction Warnings |
| Records, incomplete: | Reading |
| Recursion in directories, avoiding: | recurse |
| relative items in date strings: | Relative items in date strings |
| Remote devices: | file |
| remote tape drive: | Remote Tape Server |
| Removing files from an archive: | delete |
rename-directory: | Incremental Extraction Warnings |
| Replacing members with other members: | append |
| reporting bugs: | Reports |
| reproducible archives: | Reproducibility |
RESTORE_BEGIN: | User Hooks |
RESTORE_END: | User Hooks |
| Resurrecting files from an archive: | extract |
| Retrieving files from an archive: | extract |
| return status: | Synopsis |
rmargin: | Configuring Help Summary |
rmt: | Remote Tape Server |
RSH: | General-Purpose Variables |
RSH_COMMAND: | General-Purpose Variables |
| Running out of space: | Scarce |
|
| S |
|---|
| Salz, Rich: | Authors of parse_datetime |
| SCCS, excluding files: | exclude |
Set File Time Mode, genfile: | Set File Time |
| short options: | Short Options |
| short options with mandatory arguments: | Short Options |
| short options with optional arguments: | Short Options |
short-opt-col: | Configuring Help Summary |
| simple backup method: | backup |
SIMPLE_BACKUP_SUFFIX: | backup |
sleep, checkpoint action: | checkpoints |
SLEEP_MESSAGE: | General-Purpose Variables |
SLEEP_TIME: | General-Purpose Variables |
| Small memory: | Scarce |
| snapshot file field ranges: | Snapshot Files |
| snapshot file, format 0: | Snapshot Files |
| snapshot file, format 1: | Snapshot Files |
| snapshot file, format 2: | Snapshot Files |
| snapshot files, editing: | Fixing Snapshot Files |
| snapshot files, fixing device numbers: | Fixing Snapshot Files |
| ‘socket ignored’, warning message: | Archive Creation Warnings |
| Sparse Files: | sparse |
| sparse files v.0.0, extracting with non-GNU tars: | Sparse Recovery |
| sparse files v.0.1, extracting with non-GNU tars: | Sparse Recovery |
| sparse files v.1.0, extracting with non-GNU tars: | Sparse Recovery |
Sparse files, creating using genfile: | Generate Mode |
| sparse files, extracting with non-GNU tars: | Sparse Recovery |
| sparse formats: | Sparse Formats |
| sparse formats, defined: | sparse |
| sparse formats, Old GNU: | Old GNU Format |
| sparse formats, v.0.0: | PAX 0 |
| sparse formats, v.0.1: | PAX 0 |
| sparse formats, v.1.0: | PAX 1 |
| sparse versions: | Sparse Formats |
| Specifying archive members: | Selecting Archive Members |
| Specifying files to act on: | Selecting Archive Members |
| Standard input and output: | file |
| Standard output, writing extracted files to: | Writing to Standard Output |
| Storing archives in compressed format: | gzip |
| SVN, excluding files: | exclude |
| Symbolic link as file name: | dereference |
symlink-cast: | Archive Extraction Warnings |
|
| T |
|---|
TAPE: | file tutorial |
| tape blocking: | Blocking Factor |
| tape marks: | Many |
| tape positioning: | Many |
| Tapes, using --delete and: | delete |
TAPE_FILE: | General-Purpose Variables |
| tar: | What tar Does |
TAR: | General-Purpose Variables |
| tar archive: | Definitions |
| Tar archive formats: | Formats |
| tar entry: | Naming tar Archives |
| tar file: | Naming tar Archives |
| tar to a remote device: | file |
| tar to standard input and output: | file |
tar-snapshot-edit: | Fixing Snapshot Files |
tarcat: | Tarcat |
TAR_ARCHIVE, checkpoint script environment: | checkpoints |
TAR_ARCHIVE, info script environment variable: | Multi-Volume Archives |
TAR_ARCHIVE, to-command environment: | Writing to an External Program |
TAR_ATIME, to-command environment: | Writing to an External Program |
TAR_BLOCKING_FACTOR, checkpoint script environment: | checkpoints |
TAR_BLOCKING_FACTOR, info script environment variable: | Multi-Volume Archives |
TAR_BLOCKING_FACTOR, to-command environment: | Writing to an External Program |
TAR_CHECKPOINT, checkpoint script environment: | checkpoints |
TAR_CTIME, to-command environment: | Writing to an External Program |
TAR_FD, info script environment variable: | Multi-Volume Archives |
TAR_FILENAME, to-command environment: | Writing to an External Program |
TAR_FILETYPE, to-command environment: | Writing to an External Program |
TAR_FORMAT, checkpoint script environment: | checkpoints |
TAR_FORMAT, info script environment variable: | Multi-Volume Archives |
TAR_FORMAT, to-command environment: | Writing to an External Program |
TAR_GID, to-command environment: | Writing to an External Program |
TAR_GNAME, to-command environment: | Writing to an External Program |
TAR_MODE, to-command environment: | Writing to an External Program |
TAR_MTIME, to-command environment: | Writing to an External Program |
TAR_OPTIONS, environment variable: | using tar options |
TAR_REALNAME, to-command environment: | Writing to an External Program |
TAR_SIZE, to-command environment: | Writing to an External Program |
TAR_SUBCOMMAND, checkpoint script environment: | checkpoints |
TAR_SUBCOMMAND, info script environment variable: | Multi-Volume Archives |
TAR_UID, to-command environment: | Writing to an External Program |
TAR_UNAME, to-command environment: | Writing to an External Program |
TAR_VERSION, checkpoint script environment: | checkpoints |
TAR_VERSION, info script environment variable: | Multi-Volume Archives |
TAR_VERSION, to-command environment: | Writing to an External Program |
TAR_VOLUME, info script environment variable: | Multi-Volume Archives |
TAR_VOLUME, to-command environment: | Writing to an External Program |
| ‘Terminating zero blocks missing’, warning message.: | General Warnings |
this in date strings: | Relative items in date strings |
| time of day item: | Time of day items |
| ‘time stamp %s is %s s in the future’, warning message: | Archive Extraction Warnings |
| time zone correction: | Time of day items |
| time zone item: | General date syntax |
| time zone item: | Time zone items |
timestamp: | Archive Extraction Warnings |
today in date strings: | Relative items in date strings |
tomorrow in date strings: | Relative items in date strings |
totals, checkpoint action: | checkpoints |
| ‘transforms to empty name’, warning message.: | General Warnings |
ttyout, checkpoint action: | checkpoints |
TZ: | Specifying time zone rules |
|
| U |
|---|
| Ultrix 3.1 and write failure: | Remote Tape Server |
| ‘Unknown file type '%c', extracted as normal file’, warning message: | Archive Extraction Warnings |
| ‘Unknown file type; file ignored’, warning message: | Archive Creation Warnings |
unknown-cast: | Archive Extraction Warnings |
unknown-keyword: | Archive Extraction Warnings |
| unpacking: | Definitions |
| Updating an archive: | update |
usage-indent: | Configuring Help Summary |
| Using encrypted archives: | gzip |
| ustar archive format: | ustar |
|
| V |
|---|
| v7 archive format: | old |
| VCS, excluding files: | exclude |
| VCS, excluding patterns from ignore files: | exclude |
| VCS, ignore files: | exclude |
verbose: | Warning Classes |
| Verbose operation: | verbose |
| Verifying a write operation: | verify |
| Verifying the currency of an archive: | compare |
| version control system, excluding files: | exclude |
Version of the tar program: | help |
version-control Emacs variable: | backup |
VERSION_CONTROL: | backup |
| volno file: | Multi-Volume Archives |
VOLNO_FILE: | General-Purpose Variables |
| Volume label, listing: | label |
| Volume number file: | Multi-Volume Archives |
|
| W |
|---|
wait, checkpoint action: | checkpoints |
week in date strings: | Relative items in date strings |
| Where is the archive?: | file |
| Working directory, specifying: | directory |
| Writing extracted files to standard output: | Writing to Standard Output |
| Writing new archives: | file |
|
| X |
|---|
xdev: | Archive Creation Warnings |
xdev: | Incremental Extraction Warnings |
XLIST: | General-Purpose Variables |
xsparse: | Sparse Recovery |
|
| Y |
|---|
year in date strings: | Relative items in date strings |
yesterday in date strings: | Relative items in date strings |
|
| Z |
|---|
| zstd: | gzip |
|