Tar command in Linux

Preface tar packaging is a very important command for server O & M, because many data backups need to be packaged first and then transmitted in SCP or rsync. Here we will introduce the basic commands of tar, you can easily review what commands you need to learn in man tar Linux. Only the advantages and disadvantages are good! Option

• -C: Create a new archive file
• -X: solves an object from an archive object.
• -V: outputs related information during processing.
• -Z: Call gzip to compress and archive. when connected to-X, call gzip to decompress the archive.
• -F: Use archive file or device Archive
• -C: change to directory dir. It is used to specify the directory to be extracted during decompression.

Example (1) compressing a file (2) specifying a directory and extracting