tar

Updated: October 28, 2024

Manipulate tape archives (UNIX)

Runs on:

QNX Neutrino

Description:

The tar utility creates and manipulates streaming archive files. This implementation can extract from tar, pax, cpio, zip, jar, ar, xar, rpm, 7-zip, and ISO 9660 CD-ROM images and can create tar, pax, cpio, ar, zip, 7-zip, and shar archives.

For more information on this utility including the list of interface, generic, and miscellaneous options available, see the FreeBSD tar manual page: https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=bsdtar&sektion=1&format=html.

Note: QNX Neutrino also supports a toybox version of this utility. For more information, go to the toybox entry of this reference.

Contributing author:

BSD