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tar

Tape archive - files backup/compression.

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Verified: 2025-09-09
Syntax
$tar [options] [archive] [files]
Optionen
-c Create
-x Extract
-v Verbose
-f File
-z gzip
-j bzip2
-J xz
Examples
$tar -cvf archive.tar folder/
$tar -xvf archive.tar
$tar -czvf archive.tar.gz folder/
Typical use cases
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Standard usage
tar --help
Note Standard archiving tool.
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