tar.md

   1 ---
   2 title: tar
   3 category: CLI
   4 layout: 2017/sheet
   5 updated: 2022-08-11
   6 intro: Concatenate, Deflate, Inflate files
   7 ---
   8 ## Reference
   9 {:.-two-column}
  10
  11 ### Deflate / Inflate / Concatenate
  12 ```shell
  13 # Deflate / Compress
  14 tar -czf archive.tar.gz /path/files
  15 ```
  16
  17 ```shell
  18 # Inflate / Uncompress
  19 tar -xzf archive.tar.gz
  20 ```
  21
  22 ```shell
  23 # Concatenate files into a single tar
  24 tar -cf archive.tar /path/files
  25 ```
  26
  27 ```shell
  28 # Extract file to a defined directory
  29 tar -xzf archive.tar.gz -C /target/directory
  30 ```
  31
  32 ```shell
  33 # Append a file to an existing archive
  34 tar -zu archive.tar.gz -C /target/file
  35 ```
  36
  37 ### Common options
  38
  39 | Option | Description                                                              |
  40 |--------|--------------------------------------------------------------------------|
  41 | `z`    | compress with gzip                                                       |
  42 | `c`    | create an archive                                                        |
  43 | `u`    | append files which are newer than the corresponding copy ibn the archive |
  44 | `f`    | filename of the archive                                                  |
  45 | `v`    | verbose, display what is inflated or deflated                            |
  46 | `a`    | unlike of `z`, determine compression based on file extension             |