Comments on: 10 “tar” Command Examples in Linux to Create and Extract Archives

By: curiousviral.com

curiousviral.com — Sat, 11 Apr 2020 10:13:51 +0000

Get more tar command at various examples

https://curiousviral.com/learn-useful-tar-command-with/

By: Oz Edri

Oz Edri — Wed, 18 Dec 2019 10:50:21 +0000

In reply to thedarb. Thank you for this!

By: SRINIVAS DARIPELLI

SRINIVAS DARIPELLI — Fri, 10 Feb 2017 00:29:27 +0000

linux tar command is great tool in compresseing the files.i liked the part of compression.

By: anon

anon — Tue, 07 Feb 2017 18:04:13 +0000

I prefer XZ over BZIP, e. g.:

XZ_OPT=-9e tar cJf arch.tar.xz *

Note, there is a variable setting before the actual command.
XZ_OPT sets compression switch for xz (I think, something similar should be for GZ and BZ2 too). For XZ you can set compression method from -0 to -9, and append “e” to any in order to choose corresponding “extreme” method, which usually compresses better (not always (see `man xz`) but the difference is neglegable for me). Thus I wrote “-9e” after the equality sign.

By: Mahdieh Rostamian

Mahdieh Rostamian — Tue, 22 Sep 2015 07:29:00 +0000

In reply to Fulv.

It would be better if you use the -C option
tar cf – * | tar xfp – -C /target

By: thedarb

thedarb — Tue, 24 Feb 2015 20:18:00 +0000

You can also use tar as a recursive copy:

tar -cf – * | ( cd /tmp ; tar xvf – )

That will copy everything matched by ‘*’ to /tmp, recursively. It will preserve time stamps, ownership, and all.

If you want to get fancy, you can also pass that over SSH to another server, too:

tar -cf – * | ssh user@host “(cd /destination/path ; tar xvf – )”

By: Fulv

Fulv — Mon, 23 Feb 2015 19:36:00 +0000

One of my favorite uses of tar is to recursively copy files and directories with this command:

tar cf – * | ( cd /target; tar xfp -)