3.4.3 Short Options Cross Reference

Here is an alphabetized list of all of the short option forms, matching them with the equivalent long option.

-A

--concatenate

-B

--read-full-records

-C

--directory

-F

--info-script

-G

--incremental

-K

--starting-file

-L

--tape-length

-M

--multi-volume

-N

--newer

-O

--to-stdout

-P

--absolute-names

-R

--block-number

-S

--sparse

-T

--files-from

-U

--unlink-first

-V

--label

-W

--verify

-X

--exclude-from

-Z

--compress

-b

--blocking-factor

-c

--create

-d

--compare

-f

--file

-g

--listed-incremental

-h

--dereference

-i

--ignore-zeros

-j

--bzip2

-k

--keep-old-files

-l

--one-file-system. Use of this short option is deprecated. It is retained for compatibility with the earlier versions of GNU tar, and will be changed in future releases.

See Changes, for more information.

-m

--touch

-o

When creating — --no-same-owner, when extracting — --portability.

The later usage is deprecated. It is retained for compatibility with the earlier versions of GNU tar. In the future releases -o will be equivalent to --no-same-owner only.

-p

--preserve-permissions

-r

--append

-s

--same-order

-t

--list

-u

--update

-v

--verbose

-w

--interactive

-x

--extract

-z

--gzip