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Tue, 28/06/2011 - 09:28 — egyember
This is a note about how to tar and un-tar files. It serves as a memo as I always forget these commands and have to look them up.

Create a simple tar file:
tar -cvvf archive.tar folder_to_archive/

Extract a tar file:
tar -xf archive.tar

Bzip2 compress folder and it's sub folders, files:
tar -c --bzip2 -f archive.bz2 folder_to_archive/

Bzip2 extract:
tar -jxvf archive.bz2

Gzip compress folder and it's sub folders, files:
tar -cvzpf archive.tar.gz folder_to_archive/

Gzip extract:
tar -zxvf archive.tar.gz

Extract Gzip SQL:
gunzip archive.sql.gz

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