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Linux: tar
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| #Creating an archive using tar command | |
| *c – create a new archive | |
| *v – verbosely list files which are processed. | |
| *f – following is the archive file name | |
| *z – filter the archive through gzip | |
| Note: .tgz is same as .tar.gz | |
| //compress | |
| tar cvf archive_name.tar dirname/ | |
| tar cvzf archive_name.tar.gz dirname/ | |
| # Extracting (untar) an archive using tar command | |
| //Extracting | |
| tar xvf archive_file.tar /path/to/file | |
| tar xvfz archive_name.tar.gz | |
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