- Creating a tar file:
# tar cf filename.tar file1 file2 dir1 dir2
where: filename.tar is the tar archive you are creating
file 1 and file2 are plain files to be archived
dir1 and dir2 are directories to be archived
- Opening a tar file:
# tar xf filename.tar
where: filename.tar is the tar archive you want to open
- Creating a gzip archive:
# gzip filename.tar
where: filename.tar is the file you want to compress
The result of this would be filename.tar.gz
- Opening a gzip archive:
# gzip -d filename.tar.gz
where: filename.tar.gz is the file to be uncompressed
The result of this would be filename.tar
- Creating a Unix-Compressed archive:
# compress filename.tar
where: filename.tar is the file to be compressed
The result of this would be filename.tar.Z
- Opening a Unix-Compressed archive:
# uncompress filename.tar.Z
where: filename.tar.Z is the file to be uncompressed
The result of this would be filename.tar
- Creating a zip archive:
# zip -r filename.zip file1 file2 dir1 dir2
where: filename.zip is the archive to be created
file1 and file2 are plain files to be added
dir1 and dir2 are directories to be added
- Opening a zip archive:
# unzip filename.zip
where: filename.zip is the archive to be opened
This is the same zip format supported by windoze
- Creating a bzip2 archive:
# bzip2 filename.tar
where: filename.tar is the file to be compressed
The result is filename.tar.bz2
- Opening a bzip2 archive:
# bzip2 -d filename.tar.bz2
where: filename.tar.bz2 is the archive to be opened
The result is filename.tar
- Creating a cpio archive:
# find . -depth -print | cpio -ovcB > /dev/rmt/0
where: /dev/rmt/0 is the first tape device
Alternately, you could specify a filename
- Opening a cpio archive:
# cpio -ivcB < /dev/rmt/0
where: /dev/rmt/0 is the first tape device
Alternately, You could specify a filename