Aug 13 2007

Tar Tutorial

By Colin • Linux • 0

UnTar

To untar an archive use:

tar xvzf foo.tgz

Tar

To create an archive use:

tar cvzf foo.tgz dir

Edit: If you are unzipping into a webroot and don’t want the first directory or containing directory add –strip 1 to the end.
tar xvzf foo.tgz --strip 1