tar

Runs on:

QNX OS

Options:

-C name

Change to the specified directory first.

-c

Create.

--exclude

Exclude the specified filename.

-f name

.tar the specified file (default -).

--full-time

Show seconds with -tv.

--group name[:gid]

Set file group.

-h

Follow symbolic links.

-I prog

Filter through prog to compress or prog -d to decompress.

-J

Compress with xz.

-j

Compress with bzip2.

-m

Ignore modification time (mtime).

--mode mode

Adjust permissions.

--mtime time

Override timestamps.

--no-recursion

Skip directory contents.

--null

Separate filenames in -T with NULL, not with newline.

--numeric-owner

Use numeric uid or gid, not user or group names.

-O

Extract to stdout.

-o

Ignore owner.

--owner name[:uid]

Set file ownership.

-t

Test (list).

--restrict

Restrict to all under one directory.

-s, --sort

Sort directories.

--selinux

Save or restore labels.

--sparse

Record sparse files.

--strip-components num

Ignore first num directory components when extracting.

-T name

Include the specified names in file.

-v

Verbose display.

-X name

Exclude the specified name in file.

-x

Extract.

--xform=sed

Modify filenames via sed expression (e.g. s/R/g).

-z

Compress with gzip.

file

The pathname of the file to use as input.

Filename filter options

Create (-c) command line arguments aren't filtered.

The extract option (-x) applies --anchored by default.

If --exclude is specified, --wildcards-match-slash applies by default.

To disable defaults, use the no- prefix.

-anchored

Match name not path.

-ignore-case

Case-insensitive.

-wildcards

Expand asterisk (*), the question mark (?), and brackets([]), like shell.

-wildcards-match-slash

A wildcard like asterisk (*) in the pattern matches a forward slash ( / ) in the name.

Description:

This utility is provided as part of the toybox package. For information on how to enable it, see toybox.

Contributing author:

Rob Landley and the toybox project (see https://landley.net/toybox/).