1. Create tar
Archive File
Following command will create a
mytest.tar file for a directory "/home/anup/test".
[root@server ~]# tar -cvf mytest.tar
/home/anup/test
Description of above options we have
used to create .tar file.
c – Creates a new .tar archive
file.
v – Verbosely show the .tar file
progress.
f – File name type of the archive
file.
2. Create
tar.gz Archive File
To create tar.gz archive file we used
option z. [Note: .tar.gz and .tgz both are similar].
[root@server ~]# tar -cvzf
mytest.tar.gz /home/anup/test
OR
[root@server ~]# tar -cvzf
mytest.tgz /home/anup/test
3. Create
tar.bz2 Archive File
To create highly compressed tar file we
use option as j. [Note: tar.bz2 and tar.tbz is similar
as tb2]
[root@server ~]# tar -cvjf
mytest.tar.bz2 /home/anup/test
OR
[root@server ~]# tar -cvjf
mytest.tar.tbz /home/anup/test
OR
[root@server ~]# tar -cvjf
mytest.tar.tb2 /home/anup/test
4. Untar tar
Archive File
Untar files in Current Directory.
[root@server ~]# tar -xvf mytest.tar
Untar files in specified Directory
[root@server ~]# tar -xvf mytest.tar
-C /tmp/
5. Uncompress
tar.gz Archive File
Following command will untar .tar.gz
file at current location. If you want to untar in different directory
then use -C option as we used in above command.
[root@server ~]# tar -xvf
mytest.tar.gz
6. Uncompress
tar.bz2 Archive File
[root@server ~]# tar -xvf
mytest.tar.bz2
7. List
Content of .tar / .tar.gz / .tar.bz2 Archive File
[root@server ~]# tar -tvf
mytest.tar
[root@server ~]# tar -tvf
mytest.tar.gz
[root@server ~]# tar -tvf
mytest.tar.bz2
8. Untar
Single file from .tar / .tar.gz / .tar.bz2 Archive File
[root@server ~]# tar -xvf mytest.tar
test/mytextfile OR
[root@server ~]# tar -xvf --extract
--file=mytest.tar test/mytextfile
[root@server ~]# tar -xvzf
mytest.tar.gz test/mytextfile OR
[root@server ~]# tar -xvzf --extract
--file=mytest.tar.gz test/mytextfile
[root@server ~]# tar -xvjf
mytest.tar.bz2 test/mytextfile OR
[root@server ~]# tar -xvjf --extract
--file=mytest.tar.bz2 test/mytextfile
9. Untar
Multiple files from .tar, .tar.gz and .tar.bz2 Archive File
[root@server ~]# tar -xvf mytest.tar
"test/mytextfile1" "test/mytextfile2”
[root@server ~]# tar -xvzf
mytest.tar.gz "test/mytextfile1"
"test/mytextfile2"
[root@server ~]# tar -xvjf
mytest.tar.bz2 "test/mytextfile1" "test/mytextfile2"
10.
Untar Single directory from .tar, .tar.gz and
.tar.bz2 Archive File
[root@server ~]# tar -xvf mytest.tar
test/directoryname
[root@server ~]# tar -xvf
mytest.tar.gz test/directoryname
[root@server ~]# tar -xvf
mytest.tar.bz2 test/directoryname
11. To see the
content of a particular file in .tar / .tar.gz / .tar.bz2 archive
without unzipping the contents
[root@server ~]# tar -xvf mytest.tar
--to-command=cat test/mytextfile
[root@server ~]# tar -xvf
mytest.tar.gz --to-command=cat test/mytextfile
[root@server ~]# tar -xvf
mytest.tar.bz2 --to-command=cat test/mytextfile
