Linux tar
From John Freier
Tar commands
Create an archive
To tar up a folder. Using * will not include .hidden files. If you want to include all file including .hidden files, use . like in the example below.
tar -czf ./destination.tgz ./source/.
These options mean
c - create a new archive z - use gzip to compress the archive f - file
When using tar, these are the extensions.
*.tar - just archived no compression *.tgz - dos use to only allow three char extensions, so this is tar and gziped. *.tar.gz - modern extension for tar and gzip compressed.
Extract an archive
To extract an arcive
tar -zxvf ./file.tgz
These options mean
z - decompres using gzip x - Extract to disk from the archive v - Verbose output, show all the files while extracting. f - file
