# display contents of a file
tar tvf myfile.tar
# display contents of a diskette (Solaris)
volcheck
tar tvf /vol/dev/rdiskette0/unnamed_floppy
# copy files to a tar file
tar cvf myfile.tar *.sql
# format floppy, and copy files to it (Solaris)
fdformat -U -b floppy99
tar cvf /vol/dev/rdiskette0/floppy99 *.sql
# append files to a tar file
tar rvfn myfile.tar *.txt
# extract files from a tar filem to current dir
tar xvf myfile.tar
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