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.

Short Option	Reference
-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	–check-links.
-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.