tar the complete archive solution & zip the complete
- Creating a normal tar file
tar cvf filename.tar /home/file/location/need/to/compress
c - crate v - verbose f - file
- Extracting a normal tar file (We can specify where to extract also mentioning the location at the end)
tar -xvf filename.tar
x - extract v - verbose f - file
(We can specify where to extract also mentioning the location at the end)
tar -xvf filename.tar /home/location/we/need/the/extracted/files
- Creating a compressed tar file
tar cvfz filename.tar.gz /home/file/location/need/to/compress
c - crate v - verbose f - file z - zip .tar.gz - tar with gzip compression
- Extracting compressed tar file
tar -xvfz filename.tar.gz
- View contents of an archive without uncompressing the whole compressed archive
tar tf filename.tar
t - used to view the contents f - file
tar tf filename.tar.gz
t - used to view the contents f - file
- zip/compress a directory using zip command
zip -r filename.zip directory_name
- unzip/uncompress a .zip file using zip command
unzip filename.zip
- unzip/uncompress a .zip file to a specific location
unzip fonts.zip -d /location/where/we/need/the/files/to/be/extracted/