Tar Cheatsheet
A quick guide to tar. spitemim.xyz/tar
by spitemim, 2021-03-24
# create an uncompressed .tar file from directory tar -cvf files.tar /path/to/directory # create a gzipped tarball from directory tar -cvzf files.tar.gz /path/to/directory # extract a gzipped tarball tar -xvzf files.tar.gz # extract to specific directory tar -xvzf files.tar.gz -C /path/to/directory # list files in archive tar -tzf files.tar.gz # for bzip2 compression, replace -z with -j. for xz, replace -z with -J