Linux tar command detailed

1. With the tar command, you can package a whole bunch of files and directories into a single file, which is useful for backing up files or combining several files into one file for easy network transmission.

2. Tar command parameters

-A or--catenate: Add files to the existing backup file;

-B: Set the chunk size;

-C or--create: Create a new backup file;

-C < directory;: This option is used for decompression, which you can use to decompress in a specific directory.

-D: Record file differences;

-X or--extract or--get: Restore files from the backup file;

-T or--list: Lists the contents of the backup file;

-Z or--gzip or--ungzip: The backup file is processed by the gzip command;

-Z or--compress or--uncompress: The backup file is processed by compress instruction;

-f< backup files > or--file=< backup files;: Specify backup files;

-V or--verbose: Displays the instruction execution process;

-R: Add files to files that have been compressed;

-U: Add changed and existing files to a compressed file that already exists;

-J: Support bzip2 Extract files;

-V: Show operation process;-L: File system boundary setting;

-K: Keep the original file without overwriting;

-M: Reserved files are not overwritten;

-W: Confirm the correctness of the compressed file;

-P or--same-permissions: Restore files with the original file permissions;

-P or--absolute-names: The filename uses an absolute name and does not remove the "/" number before the file name;

-N < date format > or--newer=< date time;: Save only files updated with the specified date to the backup file;--exclude=< template style;: Exclude files that conform to the template style.

3. Tar Command example

(1). Tar
Unpacking: TAR-XVF Filename.tar
Package: TAR-CVF Filename.tar directionname
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(2) . Tar. Z
Decompression: TAR-ZXVF Filename.tar.z
Compression: TAR-ZCVF filename.tar.z directionname

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(3) . tar.gz
Decompression: TAR-ZXVF FileName.tar.gz
Compression: TAR-ZCVF FileName.tar.gz directionname

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(4). tar.bz2
Decompression: TAR-JXVF FileName.tar.bz2
Compression: TAR-JCVF FileName.tar.bz2 directionname

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(5). tar.tgz
Decompression: TAR-ZXVF FileName.tar.tgz
Compression: TAR-ZCVF FileName.tar.tgz FileName

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(6) . tgz
Decompression: TAR-ZXVF filename.tgz

3. Other commands

(1). gz
Decompression 1:gunzip filename.gz
Decompression 2:gzip-d filename.gz

Unzip:gzip FileName

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(2). bz2
Decompression 1:bzip2-d filename.bz2
Decompression 2:BUNZIP2 filename.bz2
Compression: Bzip2-z FileName
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(3). BZ
Decompression 1:bzip2-d filename.bz
Decompression 2:BUNZIP2 filename.bz
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(4). Z
Decompression: uncompress filename.z
Compression: Compress FileName
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(5). zip
Decompression: Unzip Filename.zip
Compression: Zip Filename.zip DirName
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(6). rar
Decompression: Rar-a Filename.rar
Compression: Rar-e Filename.rar

4. References

http://man.linuxde.net/sub/file Compression and decompression

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Linux tar command detailed