Tar
Tar with compression
The Unix tar command
# tar -cvzf foo.tgz cps100
will tar the directory cps100 (and its files/subdirectories) into a tar file named foo.tgz.
To see a tar file's table of contents use:
# tar -tzf foo.tgz
Extract Tar or UnTar gzip files
To extract the contents of a tar file use (works with both .tar and .gz files):
# tar -xvzf foo.tgz
This untars/extracts (x) into the directory from which the command is invoked, and prints the files being extracted (v).
Tar without compression
To combine multiple files and/or directories into a single file, use the following command:
tar -cvf file.tar inputfile1 inputfile2
To separate an archive created by tar into separate files, at the shell prompt, enter:
tar -xvf file.tar
See Also
rcp