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tar

Archiving utility. Often combined with a compression method, such as gzip or bzip. More information: https://www.gnu.org/software/tar.

Create an archive from files:

tar cf {{target.tar}} {{file1 file2 file3}}

Create a gzipped archive:

tar czf {{target.tar.gz}} {{file1 file2 file3}}

Extract a (compressed) archive into the current directory:

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

Extract an archive into a target directory:

tar xf {{source.tar}} -C {{directory}}

Create a compressed archive, using archive suffix to determine the compression program:

tar caf {{target.tar.xz}} {{file1 file2 file3}}

List the contents of a tar file:

tar tvf {{source.tar}}

Extract files matching a pattern:

tar xf {{source.tar}} --wildcards {{"*.html"}}