cli-tarHow do I tar a directory in Unix?
To tar a directory in Unix, use the tar
command. The syntax for the command is tar -cvf <name of tar file>.tar <name of directory>
. This command will create a tar file of the given directory.
For example:
tar -cvf my_directory.tar my_directory
This command will create a tar file called my_directory.tar
with the contents of the directory my_directory
.
The parts of the command are as follows:
tar
- the tar command-cvf
- flags for the tar command, which stands for create, verbose, and filemy_directory.tar
- the name of the tar file to be createdmy_directory
- the name of the directory to be tarred
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