cli-tarHow do I use the tar command line in Windows 10?

The tar command line utility is available for Windows 10 through the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL). To use it, you must first install WSL and then install a Linux distribution of your choice.

Once you have installed WSL, open a command prompt and type wsl to enter the Linux environment. Then you can use the tar command to create, extract, and view the contents of a tar file.

For example, to create a tar file called example.tar from the folder myfiles, you would use the following command:

tar -cf example.tar myfiles

This will create a tar file of the contents of the myfiles folder. To extract the contents of the tar file, you would use the following command:

tar -xf example.tar

This will extract the contents of example.tar into the current directory. To view the contents of the tar file without extracting it, you would use the following command:

tar -tf example.tar

This will list the contents of example.tar.

List of code parts

• tar - the command to run the tar utility
• -cf - create a tar file
• -xf - extract the contents of a tar file
• -tf - view the contents of a tar file

List of relevant links

• Windows Subsystem for Linux
• Tar Command Reference

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