Detailed explanation of the commands and parameters for tar compression and decompression of folders under Linux

Preface

tar is a commonly used packaging, compression, and compression tool on Linux. It has many parameters. This article only lists the commonly used compression and decompression parameters. Below are three commonly used ones. Let’s take a look at the command

1. Compress the folder/file test in the current directory to test.tar.gz:

tar -zcvf test.tar.gz test

2. Unzip file.tar.gz in the current directory to file:

tar -zxvf file.tar.gz

Detailed explanation of parameters

Must choose one of the five commands

-c: Create a compressed file

-x: Decompress

-t: View the content

-r : Append files to the end of the compressed archive file

-u: Update files in the original compressed package

These parameters are optional

-z:

with gzip attribute -j:

with bz2 attribute -Z:

with compress attribute -v : Display all processes

-O: Extract the file to standard output

-fRequired parameters

-f: Use the file name, This parameter is the last parameter, and can only be followed by the file name.

3. View

View the contents of the compressed package without decompression:

tar -tf test.tar.gz