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/