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### 4.2 Advanced GNU `tar` Operations

Now that you have learned the basics of using GNU `tar`, you may want to learn about further ways in which `tar` can help you.

This chapter presents five, more advanced operations which you probably won’t use on a daily basis, but which serve more specialized functions. We also explain the different styles of options and why you might want to use one or another, or a combination of them in your `tar` commands. Additionally, this chapter includes options which allow you to define the output from `tar` more carefully, and provide help and error correction in special circumstances.