`tar`

5 commands

Archive a directory's contents with relative paths
```
tar -czf archive.tar.gz -C path .
```
Compresses everything inside the directory so that paths in the archive start at its root instead of the full path.
- archive
- compression
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Create a gzipped archive
```
tar -czf archive.tar.gz paths
```
Packs the given files and directories into a single gzip-compressed tar archive.
- archive
- compression
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Extract an archive in the current directory
```
tar -xvf archive
```
Unpacks a tar archive, compressed or not, into the current directory and lists each extracted file.
- archive
- compression
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Extract an archive into a directory
```
tar -xf archive -C path
```
Unpacks the archive into the target directory, which must already exist.
- archive
- compression
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List the contents of an archive
```
tar -tvf archive
```
Shows every file in the archive with its permissions, size and date, without extracting anything.
- archive
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