• Stands for taped archive. Used since 1970s • Rule of thumb: create archive or compress from outside of containing directory i.e. one directory above (see tar bomb below)
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Archiving
• The process of taking all files and directories under a hierarchial structure and create a single file (*.tar) that contains all of those things • Archiving and Compression are two separate things
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View Contents
tar -tf filename.tar.gz
# t - list # f - use archive file
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Compress
tar -zcvf docs.tar.gz Documents/
# z - compress using gzip # c - create archive # v - verbose (optional)
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Uncompress
tar -zxvf docs.tar.gz
# x - extract
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tar bomb (common mistake)
tar -zcf ../tarbomb.tar.gz
• When the file is de-compreesed, it will glow up into many directories and files and mix up with existing files
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