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Archive and compression
Question | Answer |
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Create a new archive | tar -c |
Verbose - list files being written | tar -v |
Specify the file to create or unpack | tar -f |
Compress/decompress a file using gzip | tar -z |
Extract the files | tar -x |
Compress/decompress a file using bzip2 | tar -j |
Change to a specified directory | tar -C |
List the contents of an archive | tar -t |
Backup and compress the /home directory to /root/home_backup.tar.gz | tar -cvzf /root/home/backup.tar.gz /home |
Extract and decompress /root/home/backup.tar.gz to the /home directory | tar -xvzf /root/home/backup.tar.gz /home |
Write to standard output | gzip/gunzip - c |
Decompress a file using gunzip | gunzip -d |
Recursively compress/decompress all files in directories/subdirectories | gzip/gunzip - r |
Suppress warnings with gzip | gzip -q |
Show gzip help screen | gzip -h |
Show gzip Licence | gzip -L |
Save the original file name and time stamp with gzip | gzip -N |
Omit saving original file and time stamp | gzip -n |
Check compressed file for integrity | gzip -t |
Force compression/decompression of file even if it has multiple links or the corresponding file already exists | gzip/gunzip -f |
Keep original file unchanged using bzip2 | bzip2 -k |
Append newer or updated files on an existing tar file (overwrite) | tar -u |
Append the newer files to the end of an existing tar file | tar -r |