cli-tarHow can I use the CLI to yield a tar file?

The CLI (Command Line Interface) can be used to create a tar file, which is a type of archive file that contains multiple files and folders. To do this, the tar command must be used.

The following example code will create a tar file called my_archive.tar from the contents of the folder my_folder.

tar -cvf my_archive.tar my_folder/

This command has four parts:

• tar: the command to create a tar file
• -cvf: the options used to create the tar file
  • -c: create a new archive
  • -v: verbose output
  • -f: specify the filename for the archive
• my_archive.tar: the name of the tar file to be created
• my_folder/: the path to the folder to be archived

The output of this command will be a list of the files and folders that were archived, similar to the following:

my_folder/
my_folder/file1.txt
my_folder/file2.txt
my_folder/folder1/
my_folder/folder1/file3.txt

For more information, refer to the following links:

• GNU tar manual
• tar command tutorial

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