cli-tarHow do I use the Unix tar command to create an example archive?
The tar command is used to create and manipulate archives in Unix systems. To create an example archive, you can use the following command:
tar -cvf example.tar file1 file2This command will create an archive named example.tar containing the files file1 and file2.
The parts of the command are:
tar: the command to create and manipulate archives-cvf: the options for the command, in this case-cfor create,-vfor verbose (to show the progress of the command), and-ffor file (to specify the name of the archive)example.tar: the name of the archivefile1andfile2: the files to be included in the archive
For more information, see the man page for tar.
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