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| + | ====== Tar / Untar ====== | ||
| + | <code bash>tar -zcvf archive-name.tar.gz directory-name</ | ||
| + | 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 / | ||
| + | <code bash>$ tar -zcvf prog-1-jan-2005.tar.gz / | ||
| + | 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</ | ||
| + | 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 - | ||
| + | </ | ||