Archive and compress using tar, star, gzip, and bzip2 Flashcards
What does tar do
Archives files,, does not handle compression
what tar flag creates a new archive
-c
What tar flag lists contents of an archive
-f
What tar flag extracts files from an archive
-x
What tar flag compresses or uncompresses a file in gzip
-z
What tar flag compresses or uncrompesses a file in bzip2
-j
What tar flag reads archive from or to a file
-f
How would you archive two files hello, and world, into helloworld.tar
tar -cf helloworld.tar hello world
How would you list all files in helloworld.tar
tar -tvf helloworld.tar
How would you archive and compress two files hello and world uzing gzip
tar -czvf helloworld.tar.gz hello world
How would you uncompress and extract files from helloworld.tar.gz
tar -zxvf helloworld.tar.gz
What is star
Archiving utility generally used to archive large sets of data; includes pattern-matching and searching features
What flag creates an archive with star
-c
what flag shows results of running a command without executing the actions in star (dry run)
-n
What flag lists contents of file in star
-f=
