How to create,extract,compress tar files in linux ubuntu [ Explained ]

What are tar files in linux ?

The Linux “tar” stands for tape archive, which is used by large number of Linux/Unix system administrators to deal with tape drives backup. The tar command used to rip a collection of files and directories into highly compressed archive file commonly called tarball or tar, gzip and bzip in Linux. The tar is most widely used command to create compressed archive files and that can be moved easily from one disk to another disk or machine to machine.

Tar
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Tar is used to create the archive of any folder or partition, so that huge data under various directories & files can be stored as single file. Tar is generally used to store the data on tape drives in production environment.

Creating a tarball :-

#tar -cvf etc.tar /etc {-c is used to create tar, -v is verbose and -f is file name. Here we are creating tar of /etc directory with name etc.tar}

#tar -tvf etc.tar {View data under any tar file}
#du -sh etc.tar {This command will show the size}
#tar -xvf etc.tar {Extracting etc.tar, you need to change your pwd, where u want to extract the tar}
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Zip
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#gzip -v etc.tar {Used to compress the archive file}
#du -sh etc.tar.gz {Command will show the size after compression}
#gunzip -v etc.tar.gz {Uncompress the file}

Bzip2
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#bzip2 -v etc.tar.gz {Advanced compression utility}
#du -sh etc.tar.gz.bz2
#bunzip2 -v etc.tar.gz.bz2

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