https://naoko.github.io/tags/tar.gz/Recent content in Tar.gz on the art of simplicityHugoen-usWed, 07 Aug 2019 00:00:00 +0000https://naoko.github.io/posts/2019-08-07-compress-targz/Wed, 07 Aug 2019 00:00:00 +0000https://naoko.github.io/posts/2019-08-07-compress-targz/<h3 id="create-targz-archives">Create tar.gz archives</h3> <pre tabindex="0"><code>tar czf new-tar-file-name.tar.gz file-or-folder-to-archive </code></pre><p>c - create new archive z - compress the archive using gzip f - use archive file</p> <h3 id="extract-archives">Extract archives</h3> <pre tabindex="0"><code>tar -xzf tar-file-name.tar.gz </code></pre><p>x - extract the archive. z - uncompress the archive using gzip. f - use archive file.</p> <h3 id="lets-do-it">Let&rsquo;s do it.</h3> <p>I only want to compress 3 files. When I extract archive what I want to see is files in the directory.</p> <pre tabindex="0"><code>$ tree file_dir/ file_dir/ ├── file1.txt ├── file2.txt └── file3.txt $ cd file_dir $ tar czf files.tar.gz . tar: .: file changed as we read it # moved files.tar.gz to different directory $ tar -xzf files.tar.gz $ ls file1.txt file2.txt file3.txt file_dir files.tar.gz </code></pre><p>Cheers!</p>