[Tar Gzip Files] Create, Decompress *.tar.gz files #tar #linux #devops

create_tar_gz.sh

# For a couple files..
tar -czf archive.tar.gz file1 file2

# For an entire directory - recursively
tar -cfz archive.tar.gz directory_path

# Create an archive and send to another host over SSH - extract it there
tar cvf - project | ssh user@ip_addr "tar xv -C /var/www"

# Extract a tar.gz file
tar -xvf archive.tar.gz [optional list of files and dirs]

# With wildcards
tar -xf archive.tar.gz --wildcards '*.js'

# Remote archives
wget -c https://download.blender.org/source/blender-2.80.tar.gz -O - | sudo tar -xz