tar
file archiving- software package tar | home page | source code
- verify the installed version via the command-line interface:
tar --version
- filename extension: .tar
- internet media type: application/x-tar
- container types: gzip, bzip2, lzip, lzma, xz, lzop, compress
- listing (viewing) the contents of a .txz or .tar.xz file without extracting:
tar tf archivename.tar.xz
- extracting tar archives (tarballs):
tar xfv file.EXTENSION
- creating a tar archive (tarball) without compression:
tar cfv archivename.tar [dir...]
- creating a tar archive (tarball) with xz compression:
tar cfJv archivename.txz [dir...]
- creating a software package tar archive (tarball) with xz compression:
cd packagename
tar cfJv ../packagename.txz *
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