As you probably know tar is designed to store and extract files from an archive file (a tarfile). Here I’ll show you some basic usage of this tool…
Here we go!
Archive a set of files:
tar -cvf tarfile.tar /var/log/syslog /var/log/messages
Archive and compress (gzip) a set of files:
tar -cvzf file.tar.gz /var/log/syslog /var/log/messages
Archive and compress (bzip2) a set of files:
tar -cvjf file.tar.bz2 /var/log/syslog /var/log/messages
Extract a tar file:
tar -xvf file.tar
tar -xvzf file.tar.gz
tar -xvjf file.tar.bz2
Display the content of a tar file:
tar -tvf file.tar
tar -tvzf file.tar.gz
tar -tvjf file.tar.bz2
Replace a file in an existing tar file:
tar -rvf tarfile.tar filetoreplace
Update a file in an existing tar file:
tar -uvf tarfile.tar newfile
Copy all files in one directory to another directory on local host:
cd /etc; tar cf – . | (cd /etc.bak; tar xvpf -)
Copy a directory from one host to another and preserve ownership and permissions:
tar -cf – /var/amavisd | ssh user@otherhost tar -xf -
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