Concise Linux Command Line notes: Tar

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Store the file to an archive file or obtain the original file from the archive file, and create an archive file for the file

Tar [Option] [Modifiers] [File-list]

Parameters

File-listYesTarList of file path names for archiving and Extraction

 

Option

You can only use one of the following options to specify the actions to be executed by tar. You can change the behavior of an option by following one or more modifiers.

-C. Create an archive file

-U: add files in file-list to archive files.

-X extracts file-list from the archive file and writes it to the disk.

 

Modifier

-C dir: Switch the working directory to the directory specified by Dir before processing.

-F filename uses filename to specify the file name of the archive file to be created or extracted from

-J. Use Bzip2 for compression and decompression when creating an archive file or extracting a file from the archive file

-When creating an archive file or extracting a file from the archive file, use gzip to compress and decompress the file.

-V: list every file read or written by tar.

-T list the directories in the archive file

-U: update an archive file

 

Example Tar-CVF

 
Siu @ darling ~ /Work $Tar-CVF demo.TarA B cabcsiu @ darling~ /Work $LsA B C demo.TarDir
 

Pack a B c into an archive file named demo.tar and display the packaged File

Extension name tar is used to identify the file type

 

Tar-xvf

Siu @ darling ~ /Work $LsDemo.TarDirSiu @ darling~ /Work $Tar-Xvf demo.TarAbcsiu @ darling~ /Work $LsA B C demo.TarDir
 

Decompress the archive file named demo.tar to the local directory and display the decompressed file.

 

Tar-zcvf

Siu @ darling ~ /Work $Tar-Zcvf demo.Tar. Gz a B cabcsiu @ darling~ /Work $LsA B C demo.TarDemo.Tar. GZDir
 

Pack and compress the three files a B and C in the gzipformat to demo.tar.gz.

 

Tar-zxvf

 
Siu @ darling ~ /Work $Tar-Zxvf demo.Tar. Gzabcsiu @ darling~ /Work $LsA B C demo.TarDemo.Tar. GZDir
 

Decompress the demo.tar.gz file using the gunzip' Formula

 

Tar-jcvf

 
Siu @ darling ~ /Work $Tar-Jcvf demo.Tar. Bz2 a B cabcsiu @ darling~ /Work $LsA B C demo.TarDemo.Tar. Bz2 demo.Tar. GZDir
 

Compress the three files a B and C with bzip2and package them to demo.tar.bz2.

  Tar-jxvf

Siu @ darling ~ /Work $LsDemo.TarDemo.Tar. Bz2 demo.Tar. GZDirSiu @ darling~ /Work $Tar-Jxvf demo.Tar. Bz2 abcsiu @ darling~ /Work $LsA B C demo.TarDemo.Tar. Bz2 demo.Tar. GZDir
 

Decompress demo.tar.bz2 to the current directory using bunzip2.

 

Tar-jxvf-C

Siu @ darling ~ /Work $Tar-Jxvf demo.Tar. Bz2-C ./DirAbcsiu @ darling~ /Work $LsDemo.Tar. Bz2DirSiu @ darling~ /Work $Ls DirA B CSIU @ darling~ /Work $
 

Decompress the archive file to the specified directory

 

Tips

1.tar is only used for packaging, but not compressed. Bzip2 and gzip can only be used to compress a single file, but cannot be compressed.

2. Tar-jcvf and tar-zcvf solve the above problems