tar

Archiving utility. Often combined with a compression method, such as gzip or bzip2. More information: https://www.gnu.org/software/tar.

• [c]reate an archive and write it to a [f]ile:
  tar cf {{path/to/target.tar}} {{path/to/file1 path/to/file2 ...}}
• [c]reate a g[z]ipped archive and write it to a [f]ile:
  tar czf {{path/to/target.tar.gz}} {{path/to/file1 path/to/file2 ...}}
• [c]reate a g[z]ipped archive from a directory using relative paths:
  tar czf {{path/to/target.tar.gz}} --directory={{path/to/directory}} .
• E[x]tract a (compressed) archive [f]ile into the current directory [v]erbosely:
  tar xvf {{path/to/source.tar[.gz|.bz2|.xz]}}
• E[x]tract a (compressed) archive [f]ile into the target directory:
  tar xf {{path/to/source.tar[.gz|.bz2|.xz]}} --directory={{path/to/directory}}
• [c]reate a compressed archive and write it to a [f]ile, using [a]rchive suffix to determine the compression program:
  tar caf {{path/to/target.tar.xz}} {{path/to/file1 path/to/file2 ...}}
• Lis[t] the contents of a tar [f]ile [v]erbosely:
  tar tvf {{path/to/source.tar}}
• E[x]tract files matching a pattern from an archive [f]ile:
  tar xf {{path/to/source.tar}} --wildcards "{{*.html}}"