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Toon Nolten 7904a322f2 tar: simplify extraction examples (#3336) 
Dropped the examples for extraction of specific compressed archives, tar
has had autodetection of the compression for over two decades.

Removed the dashes. No versions of tar require them and all they do is
cost you POSIX compatibility. (POSIX tar did *not* allow for the
dashes.)
2019-10-10 18:28:46 +01:00

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tar

Archiving utility. Often combined with a compression method, such as gzip or bzip. More information: https://www.gnu.org/software/tar.

  • Create an archive from files:

tar cf {{target.tar}} {{file1 file2 file3}}

  • Create a gzipped archive:

tar czf {{target.tar.gz}} {{file1 file2 file3}}

  • Extract a (compressed) archive into the current directory:

tar xf {{source.tar[.gz|.bz2|.xz]}}

  • Extract an archive into a target directory:

tar xf {{source.tar}} -C {{directory}}

  • Create a compressed archive, using archive suffix to determine the compression program:

tar caf {{target.tar.xz}} {{file1 file2 file3}}

  • List the contents of a tar file:

tar tvf {{source.tar}}

  • Extract files matching a pattern:

tar xf {{source.tar}} --wildcards {{"*.html"}}