Posted on: Nov 12, 2016

As I always forget which switches to use on tar I made this little note.

Create archive

$ tar -zcvpf <destination> <source>

z = gzip
c = create
v = verbose
p = preserve permissions
f = file

Unpack archive

$ tar -xvpf <archive>

x = extract
v = verbose
p = preserve permissions
f = file

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