I allways forget how to extract a *.tar.gz file from command line on Linux, so I have to write it down.
Example of extract tar file:
tar -xvf file.tar.gz
Where:
–x extract
–v verbose output (prints all extracted files)
–f specify input filename
–z decompress
Example of creating archive with tar:
tar -cvzf compressed_file.tar /path/to/directory
Where:
–c create archive
–v verbose output
–f specify output filename
–z compress
Other examples:
Create compressed archive with three files from separate directories:
tar -cvzf compressed_file.tar /path/to/file1 /path/to/file2 /path/to/file3
