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using tar to compress files and directories in linux

Nice Narwhal answered on March 22, 2023 Popularity 10/10 Helpfulness 3/10

answer using tar to compress files and directories in linux

using tar to compress files and directories in linux

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tar xv      Extracts (x) files from the default tape drive while listing (v = verbose) 
            the file names to the screen.
tar tv      Lists the files from the default tape device without extracting them. 
tar cv file1 file2      
            Write files 'file1' and 'file2' to the default tape device.
tar cvf archive.tar file1 [file2...]   
            Create a tar archive as a file "archive.tar" containing file1, 
            file2...etc.
tar xvf archive.tar  extract from the archive file
tar cvfz archive.tar.gz dname    
            Create a gzip compressed tar archive containing everything in the directory 
            'dname'. This does not work with all versions of tar.
tar xvfz archive.tar.gz          
            Extract a gzip compressed tar archive.  Does not work with all versions of tar. 
tar cvfI archive.tar.bz2 dname   
            Create a bz2 compressed tar archive. Does not work with all versions of tar

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