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1.1     ! root        1: This is GNU tar, the tape archiving program.
        !             2: gtar: choose one of the following:
        !             3: -A, +catenate          append tar files to an archive
        !             4: -c, +create            create a new archive
        !             5: -d, +compare           find differences between archive and file system
        !             6: -D, +delete            delete from the archive (not for use on mag tapes!)
        !             7: -r, +append            append files to the end of an archive
        !             8: -t, +list              list the contents of an archive
        !             9: -u, +update            only append files that are newer than copy in archive
        !            10: -x, +extract           extract files from an archive
        !            11: Other options:
        !            12: -b, +block-size N      block size of Nx512 bytes
        !            13: -B, +read-full-blocks  reblock as we read (for reading 4.2BSD pipes)
        !            14: -C, +directory dir     change to directory DIR
        !            15: -f, +file F            use archive file or device F (or hostname:/dev/file)
        !            16: -G, +incremental       create/list/extract GNU-format incremental backup
        !            17: -h, +dereference       don't dump symlinks; dump the files they point to
        !            18: -i, +ignore-zeros      ignore blocks of zeros in archive (normally mean EOF)
        !            19: -k, +keep-old-files    keep existing files; don't overwrite them from archive
        !            20: -K, +starting-file file        begin at FILE in the archive
        !            21: -l, +one-file-system   stay in local file system when creating an archive
        !            22: -m, +modification-time don't extract file modified time
        !            23: -M, +multi-volume      create/list/extract multi-volume archive
        !            24: -N, +after-date date   only store files newer than DATE
        !            25: -o, +old-archive       write a  V7 format archive, rather than ANSI format
        !            26: -O, +to-stdout         extract files to standard output
        !            27: -p, +same-permissions  extract all protection information
        !            28: -P, +absolute-paths    don't strip leading "/"es from file names
        !            29: +preserve              like -p -s
        !            30: -R, +record-number     show record number within archive with each message
        !            31: -s, +same-order                list of names to extract is sorted to match archive
        !            32: -S, +sparse-file       handle sparse files specially
        !            33: -T, +files-from F      get names to extract or create from file F
        !            34: -v, +verbose           verbosely list files processed
        !            35: -V, +volume vnam       create archive with volume name VNAM
        !            36: +version               print tar program version number
        !            37: -w, +interactive       ask for confirmation for every action
        !            38: -W, +verify            attempt to verify the archive after writing it
        !            39: -X, +exclude file      exclude files listed in FILE
        !            40: -z,-Z,+compress                filter the archive through compress
        !            41: -[0-7][lmh]            specify drive and density

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