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essential usage of tar command
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| #create a gzip compressed archive | |
| tar -czvf archive.tgz source1/ [source2/ ...] | |
| #extract files from a gzip compressed archive | |
| tar -xzvf archive.tgz | |
| # c: create archive | |
| # x: extract archive | |
| # v: verbose | |
| # z: compress/uncompress using gzip (*.tar.gz or *.tgz files) | |
| # j: compress/uncompress using bzip2 (*.tar.bz2 files) |
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