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.
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