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.”

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tar -cvzf project.tar.gz foo

Untar the “project.tar.gz” file to a directory called bar.

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tar -xvzf project.tar.gz bar