Tar and untar files and folders

tar

tar files


tar cvf dest.tar file.txt file2.txt

Tarring folders

tar cvf dest.tar myfolder/

Untar the file or folder


tar xvf dest.tar

tar.gz

Compress using gzip:


tar cvfz dest.tar.gz myfolder/

Uncompress zip file:


tar xvfz dest.tar.gz

tar.bz


tar cvjf dest.tar.bz2 myfolder/

Extract:


tar xvjf dest.tar.bz2

Extracting individual files


tar xvjf dest.tar.bz2 textfile.txt

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