![]() ![]() wc command will count the bytes and provide estimated size of the given archived file. We will tar the directory in to the starndard output which will be redirected to the wc command. In this example we will add file named test.txtinto the existing archive named $ tar rvfz test.txtīefore archiving a directory with tar command we can learn the size of the archive with the help of wc command. We can use r option to add new file or folder by specifying file and folder names at the end of the command like below. $ export alias untar="tar dvf $1" Untar Command Adding File into ArchiveĪfter creating an archive we may need to update or add new files and folders to the existing archive. We can create some alias to create new untar command like below. *.txt is the file names we want to exract.$ tar xvfz -wildcards *.txtĭymerge/vbscan/reports//_report_at_4.56.1.txt dymerge/surnames.txt is the file we want to extract.is our archive that contains our single file.x is the parameter to be used for this operation $ tar xvfz dymerge/surnames.txt With tar a single file can be extracted from archive. If the archive is bzip2 we can use following command $ tar tvfj Extract Single File From Archive As we see tar.gz is extension for tarred and gzipped files. But if the archive is gzip we should provide z too. We can list files without opening the tar. ![]() To compress with bzip2 j parameter should be provided. z is for gzip compression other options are default for our usage.z is used to gzip format $ tar cvfz dymerge We can compress archived with with z parameter. c for compress but actually it is not compressed.We will tar a directory $ tar cvf dymerge.tar dymerge Generally used to make multiple files and directories one file. There are alternative ways to compress files but we will look tar Linux. tar xvfj file.tar or tar xvfj file.tar -C path of file in directory 7. Tar command is similar to the Windows zip. Untar single tar file or specified directory in Linux : This command will Untar a file in current directory or in a specified directory using -C option. We will look usage examples of tar in this tutorial. But the popularity of tar is never ended. The days past and Linux become popular in UNIX world. Old days of Unix to make backups into tape archives tar utility was used. ![]()
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