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    "File Name arguments" specify which files in the file system `tar'
 operates on, when creating or adding to an archive, or which archive
 members `tar' operates on, when reading or deleting from an archive.
  Operations.
 
    To specify file names, you can include them as the last arguments on
 the command line, as follows:
      tar OPERATION [OPTION1 OPTION2 ...] [FILE NAME-1 FILE NAME-2 ...]
 
    If you specify a directory name as a file name argument, all the
 files in that directory are operated on by `tar'.
 
    If you do not specify files when `tar' is invoked with `--create'
 (`-c'), `tar' operates on all the non-directory files in the working
 directory.  If you specify either `--list' (`-t') or `--extract'
 (`--get', `-x'), `tar' operates on all the archive members in the
 archive.  If you specify any operation other than one of these three,
 `tar' does nothing.
 
    By default, `tar' takes file names from the command line.  However,
 there are other ways to specify file or member names, or to modify the
 manner in which `tar' selects the files or members upon which to
 operate.  In general, these methods work both for specifying the names
 of files and archive members.
 

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