Here’s another way of creating a tar ball from a list of files.
tar -cvf backup.tar.gz a.txt b.txt c.txt d.txt e.txt |
Here’s how to view files in a tarball.
tar -tvf backup.tar.gz |
Tar Commands
Here are two important tar commands on how to create and extract a tar.gz file.
Create a tar gzip file called “project.tar.gz” of a directory called “foo.”
tar -cvzf project.tar.gz foo |
Untar the “project.tar.gz” file to a directory called bar.
tar -zxvf project.tar.gz bar |
View contents of tar file
Here’s how to view the contents of a tar file without extracting the files.
tar -tvf file.tar |