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    The tar command is used to create compressed archive files in Linux. It can combine multiple files and directories into a single archive file for easy transfer or backup. The tar command supports various options to create, extract, list contents, and filter archives. Common options include -c to create archives, -x to extract, -v for verbose output, -f to specify the archive file name, -j for bzip2 compression, and -z for gzip compression. Archive files are commonly given the extensions .tar, .tar.gz, and .tar.bz2 for gzip and bzip2 compressed archives.

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    The tar command is used to create compressed archive files in Linux. It can combine multiple files and directories into a single archive file for easy transfer or backup. The tar command supports various options to create, extract, list contents, and filter archives. Common options include -c to create archives, -x to extract, -v for verbose output, -f to specify the archive file name, -j for bzip2 compression, and -z for gzip compression. Archive files are commonly given the extensions .tar, .tar.gz, and .tar.bz2 for gzip and bzip2 compressed archives.

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    The tar command is used to create compressed archive files in Linux. It can combine multiple files and directories into a single archive file for easy transfer or backup. The tar command supports various options to create, extract, list contents, and filter archives. Common options include -c to create archives, -x to extract, -v for verbose output, -f to specify the archive file name, -j for bzip2 compression, and -z for gzip compression. Archive files are commonly given the extensions .tar, .tar.gz, and .tar.bz2 for gzip and bzip2 compressed archives.

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    Tar Notes

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    The tar command is used to create compressed archive files in Linux. It can combine multiple files and directories into a single archive file for easy transfer or backup. The tar command supports various options to create, extract, list contents, and filter archives. Common options include -c to create archives, -x to extract, -v for verbose output, -f to specify the archive file name, -j for bzip2 compression, and -z for gzip compression. Archive files are commonly given the extensions .tar, .tar.gz, and .tar.bz2 for gzip and bzip2 compressed archives.

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    Tar Commands

    Linux �tar� stands for tape archive, which is used by large number of Linux/Unix
    system administrators to deal with tape drives backup.
    The tar command used to rip a collection of files and directories into highly
    compressed archive file commonly called tarball or tar, gzip and bzip in Linux.
    tar is most widely used command to create compressed archive files and that can be
    moved easily from one disk to another disk or machine to machine.
    Creating a tar Archive file:
    eg: tar �cvf techlog.tar /home/cubeipl/
    c � Creates a new .tar archive file.
    v � Verbosely show the .tar file progress.
    f � File name type of the archive file

    Creating a tar Archive file


    eg: tar �cvf myFiles.tar /home/cubeipl/11/

    Create a compressed gzip archive file we use the option as z.


    eg: tar cvzf myFile22.tar.gz /home/cubeipl/22
    Note : tar.gz and tgz both are similar

    Create tar.bz2 Archive File


    bz2 feature compress and create archive file less than the size of the gzip.
    The bz2 compression takes more time to compress and decompress files as compared to
    gzip which takes less time.
    To create highly compressed tar file we use option as j.
    eg: tar cvfj myFiles33.tar.bz2 /home/cubeipl/33/
    Note: tar.bz2 and tbz is similar as tb2

    Untar tar Archive File


    untar or extract a tar file, just issue following command using option x (extract).
    eg: tar �xvf myFiles11.tar

    Untar files in specified Directory


    eg: tar -xvf myFiles11.tar -C /home/cubeipl/myTrainings/

    Uncompress tar.gz Archive File


    eg: tar �xvf myFiles33.tar.gz

    Uncompress tar.bz2 Archive File


    eg: tar �xvf myFiles44.tar.bz2

    List Content of tar Archive File


    eg: tar -tvf myFiles11.tar

    Tar Usage and Options


    c � create a archive file.
    x � extract a archive file.
    v � show the progress of archive file.
    f � filename of archive file.
    t � viewing content of archive file.
    j � filter archive through bzip2.
    z � filter archive through gzip.
    W � Verify a archive file.
    wildcards � Specify patterns in unix tar command.
    Tips and Tricks in Using Linux Command Line
    You can use clear command to clear the terminal if it gets filled up with too many
    commands!
    TAB can be used to fill up in Terminal. For example, You just need to type �cd Doc�
    and then TAB and�the terminal fills the rest up and makes it �cd Documents�.
    Ctrl+C can be used to stop any command in terminal safely. If it doesn�t stop with
    that, then Ctrl+Z can be used to force stop it.
    You can exit from the terminal by using the exit command.
    You can power off or reboot the computer by using the command sudo halt and sudo
    reboot.

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