Tuncay Sahin

ICT Engineer | Docent ICT & Trainer

Linux Archiving Utility

Published 21 maart, 2014 | By Tuncay Sahin

This document contains various TAR command examples for creating and extracting (compressed) archive files.

Creating an archive using tar command

Creating a tar gzipped archive	# tar cvzf archive_name.tgz dirname/
	The used options:-c option is used to create a new archive. -v verbosely list files which are processed. -f following is the archive file name. -z filter the archive through gzip.

Extracting (untar) an archive using tar command

Extract a gzipped tar archive ( *.tgz ) using option xvzf	tar xvfz archive_name.tgz
Specify destination to extract.	tar -xvz –directory=/ -f /archive_name.tgz
	The used options:-x extract files from archive.

Listing an archive using tar command

View the *.tgz file content without extracting using option tvzf	# tar tvfz archive_name.tar.gz
	The used options:-t list the contents of an archive.

Extract a single file or directory

To extract a specific file from archive	# tar xvfz archive_file.tgz /path/to/file
To extract multiple directories from archive	# tar xvfz archive_file.tgz /path/to/dir1/ /path/to/dir2/
To extract a single directory	# tar xvfz archive_file.tgz /path/to/dir/

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