| Author | John Gilmore (all…) |
| Contributor(s) | (all…) |
| Released | gnu-2000 |
| Source | gnu-tar.git |
| Man | gnu-tar.1 |
| openbsd-tar.1 | |
| freebsd-tar.1 | |
| Homepage | gnu-tar.web |
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GNU tar saves many files together into a single tape or disk archive, and can
restore individual files from the archive. It includes multivolume support, the
ability to archive sparse files, automatic archive compression/decompression,
remote archives and special features that allow tar to be used for incremental
and full backups. This distribution also includes rmt, the remote tape server.
The mt tape drive control program is in the GNU cpio distribution.
| OPT | TYPE | ++V | --V | DESC |
|---|---|---|---|---|
--remove-files | Remove files from disk after adding them to the archive | |||
creat a tarball of current working directory:
~$ tar -cvzf "../${PWD##*/}.tar.gz" ./
extart *.tar.gz, *.tar.bz2 files:
~$ tar -xzvf tarball_file.tar.gz ~$ tar -xjvf tarball_file.tar.bz2
copy via tar pipe while preserving file permissions:
~$ tar -C source_path -cpf - . | tar -C target_path -xf -
maximized compression with xz archiver:
~$ XZ_OPT=-9e tar cJf tarfile.tar.xz directory ~$ tar -cf - directory/ | xz -9 -c - > tarfie.tar.xz
xz
pack all files within current directory with further their clean up:
~$ tar --create --verbose --remove-files --file tarfile.tar file1 file2 file3 ... fileN ~$ tar -cvf tarfile.tar file1 file2 file3 ... fileN --remove-files