![]() 5) Extract tar archive to specific folder # tar -xvf archive.tarĪbove command will extract all the files and directories of archive.tar file in the current working directory. To extract an archive file, use ‘-x’ option in the tar command as shown below. Note: In the Compressed tar file we can’t append file or directory. Verify whether file is appended or not, run # tar -tvf archive.tar var/log/auth.log Let’s add /var/log/auth.log file to archive.tar, run # tar -rvf archive.tar /var/log/auth.log ‘-r’ option in the tar command is used to append or add file to existing archive file. In the below example, we are trying to list whether ‘syslog’ file is there in the tar file or not. Listing a specific file or directory from tar file. Use ‘-t‘ option in tar command to view the content of tar files without extracting it. In above command, ‘-c’ option specify to create a tar file, ‘ -v’ is used for verbose output and ‘-f’ option is used to specify the archive name. Tar file contains all the files and directories of /etc folder and /var/log/syslog file. Let’s create a tar file of /etc directory and ‘/root/anaconda-ks.cfg’ file, run # tar -cvf archive.tar /etc /var/log/syslogĪbove command will create a tar file with the name “archive.tar” in the current folder. Without any further delay, let’s jump into tar command examples. ![]() ![]() Note: hyphen ( – ) in the tar command while using options is optional.
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