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Linux System Administration
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Linux System Administration

by Tom Adelstein, Bill Lubanovic
March 2007
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
304 pages
11h 12m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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-p
Preserve file permissions.
-t
List the files in an existing archive.
-v
When creating or unpacking archives, list the contents. With the -t option, pro-
vide more detail about the listed files.
-x
Extract (read) files from an existing archive.
-z
Compress or uncompress the archive using gzip or gunzip. Archives compressed
with gzip usually have the .gz suffix.
Creating a New Archive
You can create a tar archive just to save a group of files for your own archiving pur-
poses, to send them to someone else by email, or to make them available to the pub-
lic (for example, on an FTP server). Some typical commands to archive the directory
work-docs are as follows:
To create the archive work-docs.tar from the directory work-docs:
$ tar -cf work-docs.tar work-docs
To create the compressed archive work-docs.tar.gz from the directory work-docs:
$ tar -czf work-docs.tar.gz work-docs
To create the compressed archive work-docs.tar.bz2 from the directory work-docs:
$ tar -cjf work-docs.tar.bz2 work-docs
Extracting from an Archive
At different times, you may need to extract files from an archive you created earlier
(such as a backup), from an archive someone has mailed to you, or from an archive
you have downloaded from the Internet (say, the source code for some software you
need).
Before you extract an archive, you should list and review its contents. You don’t
want to accidentally replace existing ...
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