tar
Archiving utility.
Often combined with a compression method, such as gzip or bzip2.
More information: https://www.gnu.org/software/tar.
- [c]reate an archive and write it to a [f]ile:
tar cf path/to/target.tar path/to/file1 path/to/file2 …
- [c]reate a g[z]ipped archive and write it to a [f]ile:
tar czf path/to/target.tar.gz path/to/file1 path/to/file2 …
- [c]reate a g[z]ipped (compressed) archive from a directory using relative paths:
tar czf path/to/target.tar.gz --directory=path/to/directory .
- E[x]tract a (compressed) archive [f]ile into the current directory [v]erbosely:
tar xvf path/to/source.tar[.gz|.bz2|.xz]
- E[x]tract a (compressed) archive [f]ile into the target directory:
tar xf path/to/source.tar[.gz|.bz2|.xz] --directory=path/to/directory
- [c]reate a compressed archive and write it to a [f]ile, using the file extension to [a]utomatically determine the compression program:
tar caf path/to/target.tar.xz path/to/file1 path/to/file2 …
- Lis[t] the contents of a tar [f]ile [v]erbosely:
tar tvf path/to/source.tar
- E[x]tract files matching a pattern from an archive [f]ile:
tar xf path/to/source.tar --wildcards "*.html"