-will generate a message giving confirmation that you are using
-@GNUTAR{}, with the precise version of @GNUTAR{}
-you are using. @command{tar} identifies itself and
-prints the version number to the standard output, then immediately
-exits successfully, without doing anything else, ignoring all other
-options. For example, @w{@samp{tar --version}} might return:
+causes @command{tar} to print information about its name, version,
+origin and legal status, all on standard output, and then exit
+successfully. For example, @w{@samp{tar --version}} might print: