Tar usage / Tar Cheat Sheet

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Tar Usage / Cheat Sheet

Compress a file or directory

e.g: tar -czvf name-of-archive.tar.gz /path/to/directory-or-file

• -c: Create an archive.
• -z: Compress the archive with gzip.
• -v: makes tar talk a lot. Verbose output shows you all the files being archived and much.
• -f: Allows you to specify the filename of the archive.

Extract an Archive

e.g: tar -xvzf name-of-archive.tar.gz

• f: this must be the last flag of the command, and the tar file must be immediately after. It tells tar the name and path of the compressed file.
• z: tells tar to decompress the archive using gzip
• x: tar can collect files or extract them. x does the latter.
• v: makes tar talk a lot. Verbose output shows you all the files being extracted.

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List files in an archive:

tar -tzf name-of-archive.tar.gz

t: list the contents of an archive
and because it's compressed we also need the z option.

More verbose listing can be done by adding v option:

tar -tzvf name-of-archive.tar.gz

the option adds details you normally see as if you run ls -l inside the archive.

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Hope nobody minds if I add this, but here's the command for multithreaded compression (needs 'pigz' installed of course):
tar --use-compress-program=pigz -cf <file.tar.gz> <path-or-file>
or short:
tar -I pigz -cf <file.tar.gz> <path-or-file>

What would a tar command look like that needs to create an archive but exclude a folder in the directory?

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