Linux之tar.gz file

　　A tarball (tar.gz file) is compressed tar archive.

　　The tar program provides the ability to create tar archives, as well as various other kinds of manipulation. For example, you can use Tar on previously created archives to extract files, to store additional files, or to update or list files which were already stored.

　　Syntax　　

tar options file.tar.gz tar options file.tar.gz pattern

tar -xf file.tar.gz tar -xvf file.tar.gz tar -zxvf file.tar.gz tar -zxvf file.tar.gz file1 file2 dir1 dir2

 

　　Extract tar.gz file 

　　Extract one or more members from an archive, enter:

tar -zxvf {file.tar.gz}

　　If your tarball name is backup.tar.gz, enter the following at a shell prompt to extract files:

tar -zxvf backup.tar.gz

　　Extract resume.doc file from backup.tar.gz tarball, enter:

tar -zxvf backup.tar.gz resume.doc

　　Where,

　　-z :  Work on gzip compression automatically when reading archives

　　-x :  Extract archives

　　-v :  Produce verbose output  i.e. progress and extracted file list on screen

　　-f  :  Read the archive from the archive to the specified file.

　　-t  :  List the files in the archive

　

　　Extracting an entire archive

　　To extract an entire archive, specify the archive file name only, with no individual file names as arguments.

tar -zxvf backup.tar.gz

 

　　List files in archive

　　To view a detailed table of contents (list of file), enter:　　

tar -tvf backup.tar.gz