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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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