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Created March 15, 2015 04:55
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Archiving and compressing files in Linux
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tar_usage.sh
# Extract files fomr mydir.tar
tar xvf mydir.tar
# Create the archive for file mydir and compress with gzip
tar zcvf mydir.tar.gz mydir
# Create the archive for file mydir and compress with bz2
tar jcvf mydir.tar.bz2 mydir
# Create the archive for file mydir and compress with xz
tar Jcvf mydir.tar.xz mydir
# List contents for an archive
tar tvf mydir.tar.gz
# Extract file
# Do not need to specify which format you are using
tar xvf mydir.tar.gz
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