Linux webserver useful commands – Ubuntu Part 2
- Tar Files:
Its a convenient way of linking together a bunch of files. You may come across TAR files with any of the following extensions. So, we have listed each file type with the command to extract it.
- TAR Files are not compressed:
Command: tar -xvf file.tar
x: Extract
v: Verbose
f: File Type
- tar.gz or .tgz files are compressed using gzip compression:
Command: tar -xzvf file.tar.gz
x: Extract
z: for gz compression
v: Verbose
f: File Type
- tar.bz2 files are compressed using bzip2 compression:
Command: tar -xjvf file.tar.bz2
x: Extract
j: instead of z, we use j for bz2
v: Verbose
f: File Type