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Tar Cheatsheet

Common tar commands for creating and extracting archives

Tar Cheatsheet

Create tar named archive.tar containing directory

tar cf archive.tar directory

Extract the contents from archive.tar

tar xf archive.tar

Create a gzip compressed tar file name archive.tar.gz

tar czf archive.tar.gz directory

Extract a gzip compressed tar file

tar xzf archive.tar.gz

Create a tar file with bzip2 compression

tar cjf archive.tar.bz2 directory

Extract a bzip2 compressed tar file

tar xjf archive.tar.bz2

List content of tar file

tar -tvf archive.tar