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tar — archive tool: usage

SYNOPSIS

tar -[v][zj][xc]f TAR_FILE
  [DIRECTORY|DIRECTORY/*]

If DIRECTORY is not specified, when extracting, it's extracted to the current directory.

OPTIONS

-c	: compress
-x	: extract
-v	: verbose
-f TAR_FILE	: use specified TAR_FILE
-z	: use gzip compression
-j	: use bzip2 compression
-t	: list archive contents
-C DIR	: cd to directory

The options can be collapsed but f needs to be the last option. Eg.:

tar -zvxf tar_file

extracting specific files

- Filename(s) can be specified to extract only specified file(s).

- The full path inside the tar file needs to be specified.

d1/file1 d2/file2 $ tar -zxf tar_file d1/file1

Using -C

Compress the contents of dir_to_compress located in parent_directory into dir.tar.gz.

$ pwd
cur_directory
$ ls parent_directory
dir_to_compress
$ tar -C parent_directory -zcf dir.tar.gz dir_to_compress
$ ls
parent_directory dir.tar.gz

Extract the contents of TAR_FILE into EXTRACT_DIR.
$ tar -C EXTRACT_DIR -zxf TAR_FILE

TODO

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- Translate to Spanish.

HISTORY

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2025-10-03

: Created.

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