cli-tarHow do I tar a file using the command line?

To tar a file using the command line, you can use the tar command. The syntax is as follows:

tar -cvf <filename>.tar <filename>

This will create a tar file called <filename>.tar containing the file <filename>. For example, to tar the file example.txt:

tar -cvf example.tar example.txt

This will create a tar file called example.tar containing the file example.txt.

The parts of the command are as follows:

tar: the tar command
-cvf: the flags for creating a tar file
- -c: create a tar file
- -v: verbose output
- -f: specify the filename of the tar file
<filename>.tar: the name of the tar file to be created
<filename>: the name of the file to be tarred

For more information about the tar command, see the GNU tar man page.