tar cheatsheet

Reference

# Deflate / Compress
tar -czf archive.tar.gz /path/files

# Inflate / Uncompress
tar -xzf archive.tar.gz

# Concatenate files into a single tar
tar -cf archive.tar /path/files

# Extract file to a defined directory
tar -xzf archive.tar.gz -C /target/directory

# Append a file to an existing archive
tar -zu archive.tar.gz -C /target/file

Option	Description
`z`	compress with gzip
`c`	create an archive
`u`	append files which are newer than the corresponding copy in the archive
`f`	filename of the archive
`v`	verbose, display what is inflated or deflated
`a`	unlike of `z`, determine compression based on file extension