Saturday, 3 November 2012

tar - Basic Unix Commands


tar

To create compressed archives of directories and files, and also to extract directories and files from an archive. Example:
   % tar -tvzf essay.tar.gz
displays the file names in the compressed archive essay.tar.gz while
   % tar -xvzf essay.tar.gz
extracts the files from essay.tar.gz.

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