How to extract/create tar files?
Tar sticks multiple files together. Tar dose not compress any of the files, use gzip or compress to do that. This will extract files from foo.tar. tar xvf foo.tar x = extract files from an archive v = verbosely list files processed f = use archive file foo.tar, default is tape drive This will archive the files bar1, bar2, and bar3 into foo.tar You may specify directories as well as files to be included in the tar file. If you specify a directory, everything in the directory will be included. tar cvf foo.tar bar1 bar2 bar3 c = create a new archive v = verbosely list files processed f = use archive file foo.tar, default is tape drive This will show you the contents of foo.tar.
