Tar
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Tar is the most widely used command in Unix and Linux like operating system for creating archive of multiple files and folders into a single archive file and that archive file can be further compressed using other compression techniques
Creating Archives:
shell
tar -cvf myarchive.tar /etc /root
List contents:
shell
tar -tvf myarchive.tar # List contents
tar -tvf myarchive.tar path # List contents of path
Append or add files:
shell
tar -rvf data.tar /etc/fstab
Extract files:
shell
tar -xvf myarchive.tar # Extract
tar -xvf myarchive.tar -C /tmp # Extract to /temp
tar -xvf myarchive.tar /etc/fstab -C /etc # Only extract /etc/fstab to /etc