TAR(1)

📦 version 1.053, in alpine 3.24

💅 TAR(1) — like, the manual page, bestie

okay so real talk: this is TAR(1), and it lives in the User Contributed Perl Documentation section of the manual, which is honestly such a slay little corner of the docs. it's the perl-flavoured write-up, not the big GNU one, and we're obsessed with the specificity. 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

tar — manipulate tape archives 🦋

like, that's the whole vibe. tar is the thing that manipulates tape archives. tape. archives. manipulating them. periodt. 💅

ngl the NAME section is short and iconic — it ate and left no crumbs. no flags, no options, no extra lore in this one, just tar and its one true job: manipulating tape archives. 🌸

and that's the whole page, bestie — she's brief but she's everything ✨

signing off with the receipts: this gem is perl v5.42.2, dated 2026-02-15, and yes it says TAR(1) at the bottom too, because symmetry is main character energy 👑💖 🫶

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