cli-tarHow do I use the Unix tar zip command?
The Unix tar
command is used to create, modify, and extract files from an archive file. It is commonly used to compress files into a single archive file, or to extract files from an archive.
The syntax for the tar
command is as follows:
tar [options] [archive file] [files to archive]
The -z
option is used to compress the archive file with gzip.
For example, to create an archive of two files, file1.txt
and file2.txt
, and compress it with gzip, the command would be:
tar -zcvf archive.tar.gz file1.txt file2.txt
The -c
option tells tar
to create an archive, the -v
option tells it to be verbose and display the files that are being archived, and the -f
option tells tar
to use the file archive.tar.gz
as the archive file.
To extract the files from the archive, the command would be:
tar -zxvf archive.tar.gz
The -x
option tells tar
to extract the files from the archive, and the -v
option tells it to be verbose and display the files that are being extracted.
For more information about the tar
command, see the GNU tar manual.
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