Tag: tar

unix / linux January 5, 2015 1 min read by mkyong 0 comments

Linux – How to extract a tar.gz file

In this tutorial, we will show you how to extract a tar.gz file : tar vxf filename.tar.gz Example For example, apache-ant-1.9.4-bin.tar.gz in your ~/Download folder. $ cd ~ $ pwd /Users/mkyong # Optionally, create a new folder for the archived file. $ mkdir tools $ cd tools $ pwd /Users/mkyong/tools # Copy archived file to […]

unix / linux October 30, 2008 5 min read by mkyong 3 comments

How to create a .tar.gz file on Linux

A few examples to show the use of tar command to create a .tar.gz file on Linux. Table of contents 1. Create, list and extract a .tar.gz file 2. What is tarball or .tar.gz? 3. Create a .tar.gz file 3.1 Tar and compress a file 3.2 Tar and compress multiple files 3.3 Tar and compress […]