cli-tarHow do I use the Unix tar options?
The tar
command is a powerful tool in Unix-like systems for creating and managing archives. It is commonly used for file compression, archiving, and extraction.
The basic syntax for tar is tar [options] [archive] [file]
. Here are some common options you can use with tar:
-c
: Create an archive-x
: Extract files from an archive-f
: Specify an archive filename-v
: Verbosely list files processed-z
: Compress or decompress an archive using gzip
For example, to create an archive of a file named myfile.txt
, you can use the following command:
tar -cvzf myfile.tar.gz myfile.txt
This will create a compressed archive of myfile.txt
named myfile.tar.gz
.
To extract the contents of the archive, you can use the following command:
tar -xvzf myfile.tar.gz
This will extract the contents of the archive to the current directory.
For more detailed information about the tar command, you can refer to the GNU tar manual.
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