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tar

Tape archive utility

Syntax

tar [OPTION...] [FILE]...

Common Options

-cCreate archive
-xExtract archive
-vVerbose output
-fSpecify archive file
-zUse gzip compression
-jUse bzip2 compression
-tList archive contents

Common Examples

tar -cvf archive.tar files/

Create tar archive

tar -czvf archive.tar.gz files/

Create gzipped archive

tar -xvf archive.tar

Extract tar archive

tar -tzvf archive.tar.gz

List archive contents

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