Archiving in Linux

General order

Create archive (.tar) —> Compress the archive (.tar.gz) —> Backup/whatever

Fun things -

1. tar (tape archive)
2. A good idea to list the files in the archive first to see where it will go after extracting

Commands

Archive

# To list archive contents
tar --list --file <archivename>
tar -tf <archivename>
tar tf <archivename>


## To create 
tar --create --file <archivename> <filetobearchived>
tar cf <archivename> <filetobearchived>

## To append to existing archive
tar --append --file <archivename> <filetobearchived>
tar rf <archivename> <filetobearchived>

## To extract 
tar --extract --file <archivename>
tar xf <archivename>

## To extract in different directory
tar --extract --file <archivename> --directory <dirname>
tar xf <archivename> -C <dirname>

Compression

sudo tar czfP <archivename> <dirname>