tar

Kobie is studying for his RHEL-based LFCS exam. Please show him 5 extremely representative tar examples that are probably similar to what he might see on the exam.

• Creating a tar archive:
  • tar -cvf archive.tar file1 file2 file3
  • This command creates a new tar archive called archive.tar and adds file1, file2, and file3 to it. The -c option tells tar to create a new archive, and the -v option enables verbose output so that the user can see the progress of the archive creation.
• Extracting a tar archive:
  • tar -xvf archive.tar
  • This command extracts the contents of the archive.tar file into the current directory. The -x option tells tar to extract the contents of an existing archive.
• Compressing a tar archive:
  • tar -czvf archive.tar.gz file1 file2 file3
  • This command creates a new compressed tar archive called archive.tar.gz and adds file1, file2, and file3 to it. The -z option tells tar to compress the archive using gzip.
• Extracting a compressed tar archive:
  • tar -xzvf archive.tar.gz
  • his command extracts the contents of the archive.tar.gz file into the current directory. The -x option tells tar to extract the contents of an existing archive, and the -z option tells it to decompress the archive using gzip.
• Extracting specific files from a tar archive:
  • tar -xvf archive.tar file1 file2
  • This command extracts only file1 and file2 from the archive.tar file into the current directory. The -x option tells tar to extract the contents of an existing archive, and the filenames of the files to extract are specified after the archive filename.

These examples cover some of the most common use cases for tar, and should be representative of what Kobie might see on his RHEL-based LFCS exam.