➜ ~ ➜ ~ tldr ➜ ~ tldr tar 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 from [f]iles: tar cf target.tar file1 file2 file3 - [c]reate a g[z]ipped archive from [f]iles: tar czf target.tar.gz file1 file2 file3 - [c]reate a g[z]ipped archive from a directory using relative paths: tar czf target.tar.gz --directory= path/to/directory . - E[x]tract a (compressed) archive [f]ile into the current directory: tar xf source.tar[.gz|.bz2|.xz] - E[x]tract a (compressed) archive [f]ile into the target directory: tar xf source.tar[.gz|.bz2|.xz] --directory= directory - [c]reate a compressed archive from [f]iles, using [a]rchive suffix to determine the compression program: tar caf target.tar.xz file1 file2 file3 - Lis[t] the contents of a tar [f]ile [v]erbosely: tar tvf source.tar - E[x]tract [f]iles matching a pattern: tar xf source.tar --wildcards " *.html " ➜ ~ t ➜ ~ tl ➜ ~ tld ➜ ~ tldr t ➜ ~ tldr ta tar xf source.tar[.gz|.bz2|.xz] --directory=