Tar Compress File Example

Tar is the most widely used command in Unix and Linux like operating system for creating archive of multiple files and folders into a single archive file and that archive file can be further compressed using gzip and bzip2 techniques. In other words we can say that tar command is used to take backup by archiving multiple files and directory into a single tar or ...

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This example creates a compressed etc. tar .gz file of the entire /etc/ directory. The tar flags are as follows, ‘c’ creates a new tar archive, ‘z’ specifies that we want to compress with gzip, ‘v’ provides verbose information, and ‘f’ specifies the file to create. The resulting etc. tar .gz file contains all files within /etc

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Compress an entire directory by running tar -zcvf file . tar . gz /path/to/dir/ command in Linux. Compress a single file by running tar -zcvf file . tar . gz /path/to/filename command in Linux. Compress multiple directories file by running tar -zcvf file . tar . gz dir1 dir2 dir3 command in ...

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$ tar xvzf file . tar .gz. 5. Creating compressed tar archive file in Linux using option -j : This command compresses and creates archive file less than the size of the gzip. Both compress and decompress takes more time then gzip. $ tar cvfj file . tar .tbz example .cpp. Output :

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