sbase/tar.1
Michael Forney 22921a859f Fix various lint warnings in manuals
Fix "new sentence, new line" warnings throughout so that formatters
can produce correct spacing between sentences.

join.1
  Remove unnecessary Ns macros. These are not necessary for delimeters,
  which get special treatment.

xinstall.1
  Fix date in manual. The contents were last modified on 2016-12-03,
  so use that instead of the invalid date.

grep.1
  Fix escape sequence for `\<` and `\>`.

ed.1
  Remove spurious `\\n` escape for the null-command.
2020-03-01 15:32:11 -08:00

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.Dd 2015-10-08
.Dt TAR 1
.Os sbase
.Sh NAME
.Nm tar
.Nd create, list or extract a tape archive
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Nm
.Op Fl C Ar dir
.Op Fl J | Fl Z | Fl a | Fl j | Fl z
.Fl x Op Fl m | Fl t
.Op Fl f Ar file
.Op Ar file ...
.Nm
.Op Fl C Ar dir
.Op Fl J | Fl Z | Fl a | Fl j | Fl z
.Op Fl h
.Fl c Ar path ...
.Op Fl f Ar file
.Sh DESCRIPTION
.Nm
is the standard file archiver.
.Sh OPTIONS
.Bl -tag -width Ds
.It Fl c Ar path ...
Create archive from
.Ar path .
.It Fl C Ar dir
Change directory to
.Ar dir
before beginning.
.It Fl f Ar file
Set
.Ar file
as input | output archive instead of stdin | stdout.
If '-', stdin | stdout is used.
.It Fl m
Do not preserve modification time.
.It Fl t
List all files in the archive.
.It Fl x
Extract archive.
.It Fl h
Always dereference symbolic links while recursively traversing directories.
.It Fl J | Fl Z | Fl a | Fl j | Fl z
Use xz | compress | lzma | bzip2 | gzip compression or decompression.
These utilities must be installed separately.
Using these flags is discouraged in favour of the flexibility
and clarity of pipes:
.Bd -literal -offset indent
$ bzip2 -cd archive.tar.bz2 | tar -x
$ gzip -cd archive.tar.gz | tar -x
.Ed
.Bd -literal -offset indent
$ tar -c file ... | bzip2 > archive.tar.bz2
$ tar -c file ... | gzip2 > archive.tar.gz
.Ed
.El
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr ar 1 ,
.Xr bzip2 1 ,
.Xr gzip 1
.Sh STANDARDS
The
.Nm
utility is compliant with the UStar (Uniform Standard Tape ARchive)
format defined in the
.St -p1003.1-88
specification.