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tar — Archiving utility. Often combined with a compression method, such as `gzip` or `bzip2`. More informa

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Problem

How to use the tar command: Archiving utility. Often combined with a compression method, such as gzip or bzip2. More information: <https://www.gnu.org/software/tar/manual/tar.html>.

Solution

tar — Archiving utility. Often combined with a compression method, such as gzip or bzip2. More information: <https://www.gnu.org/software/tar/manual/tar.html>.

[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}} {{[-C|--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]}} {{[-C|--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}}"

Code Snippets

[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}} {{[-C|--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]}} {{[-C|--directory]}} {{path/to/directory}}

Context

tldr-pages: common/tar

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