Show pageOld revisionsBacklinksExport to PDFBack to top This page is read only. You can view the source, but not change it. Ask your administrator if you think this is wrong. ====== Tar / Untar ====== <code bash>tar -zcvf archive-name.tar.gz directory-name</code> Where, *-z : Compress archive using gzip program in Linux or Unix *-c : Create archive on Linux *-v : Verbose i.e display progress while creating archive *-f : Archive File name For example, say you have a directory called /home/jerry/prog and you would like to compress this directory then you can type tar command as follows: <code bash>$ tar -zcvf prog-1-jan-2005.tar.gz /home/jerry/prog</code> Above command will create an archive file called prog-1-jan-2005.tar.gz in current directory. If you wish to restore your archive then you need to use the following command (it will extract all files in current directory): <code bash>$ tar -zxvf prog-1-jan-2005.tar.gz</code> Where, *-x: Extract files from given archive If you wish to extract files in particular directory, for example in /tmp then you need to use the following command: <code bash> $ tar -zxvf prog-1-jan-2005.tar.gz -C /tmp $ cd /tmp $ ls - </code> linux/shell_commands/tar.txt Last modified: 2019/10/31 09:05by 127.0.0.1