tar

Archiving utility. Often combined with a compression method, such as gzip or bzip2. More information: <https://www.gnu.org/software/tar>.

Install

All systems
curl cmd.cat/tar.sh
Debian Debian
apt-get install tar
Ubuntu
apt-get install tar
Alpine
apk add tar
Arch Arch Linux
pacman -S tar
image/svg+xml Kali Linux
apt-get install tar
CentOS
yum install tar
Fedora
dnf install tar
Windows (WSL2)
sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install tar
Raspbian
apt-get install tar
Dockerfile
dockerfile.run/tar
Docker
docker run cmd.cat/tar tar powered by Commando

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 and write it to a [f]ile:
    tar cf target.tar file1 file2 file3
  • [c]reate a g[z]ipped archive and write it to a [f]ile:
    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 [v]erbosely:
    tar xvf 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 and write it to a [f]ile, 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 files matching a pattern from an archive [f]ile:
    tar xf source.tar --wildcards "*.html"

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