cli-tarHow do you tar multiple directories in Unix?
Tar is a command line utility used to create and manipulate tar archives in Unix systems.
To tar multiple directories in Unix, use the following command:
tar -cvf archive_name.tar dir1 dir2 dir3
This command will create a tar archive named archive_name.tar
containing the content of the directories dir1
, dir2
and dir3
.
The flags used in this command are:
-c
: create a new tar archive-v
: verbose output, display the progress of the archiving process-f
: specify the name of the tar archive
For more information, refer to the GNU tar manual.
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