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Archiving utility. Often combined with a compression method, such as `gzip` or `bzip2`.

Options (1)

-C, --directoryboolean

[c]reate a g[z]ipped (compressed) archive from a directory using relative paths

Example: tar czf {{path/to/target.tar.gz}} {{[-C|--directory]}} {{path/to/directory}} .

[c]reate an archive and write it to a [f]ile

tar cf path/to/target.tar path/to/file1 path/to/file2 ...

[c]reate a g[z]ipped archive and write it to a [f]ile

tar czf path/to/target.tar.gz path/to/file1 path/to/file2 ...

[c]reate a g[z]ipped (compressed) archive from a directory using relative paths

tar czf path/to/target.tar.gz [-C|--directory] path/to/directory .

E[x]tract a (compressed) archive [f]ile into the current directory [v]erbosely

tar xvf path/to/source.tar[.gz|.bz2|.xz]

E[x]tract a (compressed) archive [f]ile into the target directory

tar xf path/to/source.tar[.gz|.bz2|.xz] [-C|--directory] path/to/directory

[c]reate a compressed archive and write it to a [f]ile, using the file extension to [a]utomatically determine the compression program

tar caf path/to/target.tar.xz path/to/file1 path/to/file2 ...

Lis[t] the contents of a tar [f]ile [v]erbosely

tar tvf path/to/source.tar

E[x]tract files matching a pattern from an archive [f]ile

tar xf path/to/source.tar --wildcards "*.html"