tar: add a relative paths example (#3867)

Co-authored-by: Starbeamrainbowlabs <sbrl@starbeamrainbowlabs.com>
2020-02-25 19:04:41 +00:00 · 2020-02-25 19:04:41 +00:00 · bb264b81b2
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 `tar czf {{target.tar.gz}} {{file1}} {{file2}} {{file3}}`

+- Create a gzipped archive from a directory using relative paths:
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+`tar czf {{target.tar.gz}} -C {{path/to/directory}} .`
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 - Extract a (compressed) archive into the current directory:

 `tar xf {{source.tar[.gz|.bz2|.xz]}}`