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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