tar

Combines files to create an archive. It also extracts files from the archive.

BSDTAR(1) BSD General Commands Manual

NAME
     tar -- manipulate tape archives

SYNOPSIS
     tar [bundled-flags <args>] [<file> | <pattern> ...].
     tar {-c} [options] [files | directories].
     tar {-r | -u} -f archive-file [options] [files | directories]
     tar {-t | -x} [options] [patterns]

github

  • The files in jupyter notebook format on github are here.

Environment

The author’s OS is macOS, and the options are different from Linux and Unix commands.

When you actually run the command, you will need to use the prefix ! and %%bash in the first line.

!sw_vers

ProductName: Mac OS X
ProductVersion: 10.14.6
BuildVersion: 18G95

!bash --version

GNU bash, version 3.2.57(1)-release (x86_64-apple-darwin18)
Copyright (C) 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

Example usage

Create a file

%%bash
echo "Preparing a file"
echo "1234567890" > temp1
echo "0987654321" > temp2

tar -czf temp.tgz temp1 temp2
echo -e "\n<ls>"
ls | grep temp

Prepare the file

<ls
temp.tgz
temp1
temp2

Unzip the files

%%bash
tar -xzf temp.tgz

Typical options

For many years, I have used the following two commands, which are a combination of four commands. v is used when necessary in verbose. I have never had any trouble with these two.

Decompressing files

  • xzvf

Create a file

  • czvf