Comments on: The Ultimate Tar Command Tutorial with 10 Practical Examples

By: Jeff

Jeff — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 19:33:41 +0000

Thanks mate, just what l needed!

By: gcino

gcino — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 21:25:13 +0000

I have an old round reel, need to extract data. When I type in command tar xvf /dev/rmt/0m one tape gives me data, another tape gives me error msg: tar: blocksize=4

How do I extract the second tape?

By: Fredrick

Fredrick — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 07:21:45 +0000

nice article, Is it possible to enter a command relating to a tar.gz file will tell you relative information about the file such as when it was created, its compression ratio and how many files it contains? cheers

By: Navin Pathak

Navin Pathak — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 09:36:56 +0000

Very Nice Ramesh Ji very good article I understand this complete to perform any compression task in any organization……………….. cool article

By: adbs98

adbs98 — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 17:41:29 +0000

This is a great guide and really helped me.

I would only add one command which is extremely helpfull and that is the -C option to push all files or just one file extracted to a certain directory of your choice

tar xvgj test.tar.bz2 -C /opt/test Being an example

By: lxtips

lxtips — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 20:08:14 +0000

Hello, thank-you very much, and the peeps who posted useful comments

By: golf

golf — Wed, 11 May 2011 23:30:15 +0000

Hello thank you for examples –

Can you specify proper example/syntax to create a tar of a folder&subfolders on one server and send to a different server….
Source folder/s to TAR /home/222/TRLIST2
destination server= myserver.xyz.com
destination folder home/new/

Also do i need to uzip on other server…..
Can this all be done in one command line or does it require a
batch or script file

thank you for any help on this
Golf

By: sridhar

sridhar — Mon, 14 Feb 2011 10:24:44 +0000

very good super … wondeful thanks a lot

By: Roger

Roger — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 18:40:42 +0000

@Michael,

tar czvf tarfile.tgz /etc/sysconfig
c = create
z = compress
v = verify
f = filename to create
/etc/sysconfig everything in that directory will go into the tar file.

There are a ton of resources. I tend to just google what I need when the time comes. Also, typing ‘man tar’ on the commandline would give you lots more info.

By: Michael Vincent

Michael Vincent — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 05:16:58 +0000

describe in detail what the following command does..tar czvf tarfile.tgz /etc/sysconfig.
Can some one tell me what this means..im new to linux..stil trying to learn it…really confused..what sites do you reccomend…