compression¶
Tar and untar¶
Create tar archive File
$ tar -cvf tar-archive-name.tar <source>
Untar files in current directory
$ tar -xvf tar-archive-name.tar
Untar files to a specific directory
$ tar -xvf tar-archive-name.tar -C <destination>
List content of tar archive file
$ tar -tvf tar-archive-name.tar
Compress and uncompress¶
Compress folder to tar.gz
$ tar -czvf tar-archive-name.tar.gz <source>
Extract a tar.gz compressed archive
$ tar -xzvf tar-archive-name.tar.gz
Compress folder to tar.bz2
$ tar -cjvf tar-archive-name.tar.bz2 <source>
Extract a tar.bz2 compressed archive
$ tar -xjvf tar-archive-name.tar.bz2