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List Content for tar archive: When we want to know the content of tar achive package, we can use the tf option as shown below.

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Extracting tar archive: Extraction process will untar/uncompressed the tar archive package to files or directory having the files as shown below.

Creating tar archive: Consider we have multiple files system.log under techplayon directory, we can tar them using following command.

Most Command Used tar Commonads with Example

file or directory is a space-separated list for extraction or compression.

archive-fileis the file name and extension.

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-r : update or add file or directory in already existed.

-j : filter archive tar file using tbzip.

-z : zip, tells tar command that creates tar file using gzip.

-u : archives and adds to an existing archive file.

-t : displays or lists files in archived file.

-f : creates archive with given filename.

Following it the list of options available with tar command. Options indicates which operation executes on the files (creation, extraction, etc.).It shows the basic syntax, compressing and unpressing with tar and compressing and uncompressing the with the gzip. on linux system tar.gz file can be uncompressed using tar command while on windows machines it can uncompressed using 7-zip, winzip, winrar like toolįollowing figure show the tar command syntax for tar in Linux system.gzip and tar are usually used to create tarballs that are compressed significantly.It is similar to 7-zip, winzip, winrar tools in Windows OS.gzip is a compression tool used to reduce the size of a file.tar means in linux system is tape archive used to to combine multiple files into one.Using tar commands, we can compress the files to a significate amount and transfer to local or remote machine for offline analysis. When we work with telecom system (Base-Stations, Routers, servers), they do dump the logs file in a hug amount – several GBs of data, which is difficult to transfer to another machines for offline debugging. The tar command is to compress files and directories into a highly compress and uncompressed archive file commonly called tarball or tar.gz in Linux. In the Linux system, “ tar” stands for tape archive.

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