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The Tar Command Cheat Sheet

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"The Tar Command Cheat Sheet"

Utilize this tar command cheat sheet and do your best work.

In this cheat sheet you will learn:

  • How to create, extract and compress an archive.
  • The difference between .tar, tar.gz, and .tgz files.
  • How to use gzip and gunzip.
  • The difference between “tar cvf” and “tar -cvf” (notice the hyphen…)
  • Some bonus command line tips to speed up working with tar (and any other type of) files.


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