Tar utility creates an archive, Gzip compressed the files.
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1. Create tar archive
tar -cf tarFileName.tar file1 file2 file3
2. View the list of files
tar -tf tarFileName.tar
3. Extract tar archive
tar -xf tarFileName.tar
The above options have the meanings as:
- c - create an archive
- f - archive file
- t - list the content of the archive
- x - extract an archive
Compress tar with GZIP
If the file is a ".tar.gz" or ".tgz" file it is a collection of files that is compressed. To compress a file, first create the tar file then gzip the file. For using gzip, the option -z has to be used with the above command.Create tar archive
tar -czf tarFileName.tar.gz file1 file2 file3
Now the archive is created as a compressed file.
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