TAR Commands Cheat Sheet
Here is a cli commands cheat sheet for TAR command, you can use this as a quick reminder for basic commands with a brief description for each of the commands.
What is TAR command?
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# To extract an uncompressed archive:
tar -xvf /path/to/foo.tar
# To extract a .tar in specified directory:
tar -xvf /path/to/foo.tar -C /path/to/destination/
# To create an uncompressed archive:
tar -cvf /path/to/foo.tar /path/to/foo/
# To extract a .tgz or .tar.gz archive:
tar -xzvf /path/to/foo.tgz
tar -xzvf /path/to/foo.tar.gz
# To create a .tgz or .tar.gz archive:
tar -czvf /path/to/foo.tgz /path/to/foo/
tar -czvf /path/to/foo.tar.gz /path/to/foo/
# To list the content of an .tgz or .tar.gz archive:
tar -tzvf /path/to/foo.tgz
tar -tzvf /path/to/foo.tar.gz
# To extract a .tar.bz2 archive:
tar -xjvf /path/to/foo.tar.bz2
# To create a .tar.bz2 archive:
tar -cjvf /path/to/foo.tar.bz2 /path/to/foo/
# To list the content of an .tar.bz2 archive:
tar -tjvf /path/to/foo.tar.bz2
# To create a .tgz archive and exclude all jpg,gif,... from the tgz
tar -czvf /path/to/foo.tgz --exclude=\*.{jpg,gif,png,wmv,flv,tar.gz,zip} /path/to/foo/
# To use parallel (multi-threaded) implementation of compression algorithms:
tar -z ... -> tar -Ipigz ...
tar -j ... -> tar -Ipbzip2 ...
tar -J ... -> tar -Ipixz ...
Check out the TAR command documentation .
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