Archiving and extracting tar files
Archiving and extracting tar files Create tar.gz file: tar -czf /path/to/output/folder/filename.tar.gz/path/to/folder Extract tar.gz to folder: tar -xvzf /path/to/output/folder/filename.tar.gz -C /path/to/folder List the contents of a tar.gz file: tar -ztvf file.tar.gz Where: c: create x: extract t: List the contents of an archive v: Verbosely list files processed (display detailed information) z: Filter the archive through gzip so that we can open compressed (decompress) .gz tar file j: Filter archive through bzip2, use to decompress .bz2 files. f filename: Use archive file called filename