knowledge/technology/applications/cli/compression/tar.md

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# Tar
Tar is the most widely used command in Unix and Linux like operating system for creating archive of multiple files and folders into a single archive file and that archive file can be further compressed using other compression techniques

Creating Archives:
```shell
tar -cvf myarchive.tar /etc /root
```

List contents:
```shell
tar -tvf myarchive.tar # List contents
tar -tvf myarchive.tar path # List contents of path
```

Append or add files:
```shell
tar -rvf data.tar /etc/fstab
```

Extract files:
```shell
tar -xvf myarchive.tar # Extract
tar -xvf myarchive.tar -C /tmp # Extract to /temp
tar -xvf myarchive.tar /etc/fstab -C /etc # Only extract /etc/fstab to /etc
```