Create linux tar gz (Gzip) archive
tar -czvf myarchive.tgz mydirectory/
We use the -c (create) option to create an linux tar archive
**Note that .tgz is the same thing as .tar.gz
Create linux simple tar archive (withouth compresion)
tar -cvf myarchive.tar mydirectory/
Extracting linux tar archive:
Extract linux tar gz (Gzip) archive
tar -xzvf mystuff.tgz
Extract linux simple tar archive
tar -xvf mystuff.tar
We use -x (extract) to extract the files form the tar archive
Extract linux tar archive to speciefied directory
tar -xvzf filename.tar.gz -C /desired/path
Testing / viewing your archive
tar -tvf myarchive.tar
tar -tzvf myarchive.tgz
Here we used the – t opton
-t, –list list the contents of an archive
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