Compressing Files

tar

tar -[crtx][vf]* <archive-file> [<file>*]

    c :  Create
    r :  Append
    t :  List
    x :  Extract

    v :  Verbose
    f :  Use the specified archive file

• Combine a number of files into a single file
• Removes the leading "/" from any absolute paths

Create

tar -cvf archive.tar <files>

# Use the find command
find -type f -name '*.txt' | xargs tar -cvf archive.tar

# gzip compression
tar -zcvf archive.tgz <files>

Append

tar -rvf archive.tar <files>

# gzip compression
tar -zrvf archive.tgz <files>

List

tar -tvf archive.tar

# gzip compression
tar -ztvf archive.tgz

Extract

tar -xvf archive.tar

# gzip compression
tar -zxvf archive.tgz

zip

zip data.zip <files>

zip -r data.zip <dir>

Options

-u   update (only changed or new files)
-f   freshen (only changed files)
-d   delete entries in zipfile

-r   recurse into directories