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6 Choosing Files and Names for `tar'
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Certain options to `tar' enable you to specify a name for your archive.
Other options let you decide which files to include or exclude from the
archive, based on when or whether files were modified, whether the file
names do or don't match specified patterns, or whether files are in
specified directories.

   This chapter discusses these options in detail.

file

Choosing the Archive's Name

Selecting Archive Members

files

Reading Names from a File

exclude

Excluding Some Files

wildcards

Wildcards Patterns and Matching

quoting styles

Ways of Quoting Special Characters in Names

transform

Modifying File and Member Names

after

Operating Only on New Files

recurse

Descending into Directories

one

Crossing File System Boundaries