It is an archive file with several other files inside it, which is then compressed. To instruct tar to put the extracted unzipped files into a specific directory, enter:. The addition of the —z option is what signals tar to compress the files. This copies the contents of your Documents folder into a single file, called documents. The options -cvf work as follows:. This command extracts and lists all files from the documents. The -x option tells tar to extract the files.
You can also use xargs with tar to create a tar. Note: Some graphical interfaces include a tool for managing tar. Simply right-click the item you want to compress, mouseover compress, and choose tar.
All commands can be commented on, discussed and voted up or down. Share Your Commands. Extract tar. Archive all folders in a directory into their own tar. Every new command is wrapped in a tweet and posted to Twitter. But it must be directly followed by the filename. This example with all the other options after the tar name works fine: tar -f mytar.
Thanks a lot that was great. Show 2 more comments. You have two options: Either use tar and grep to list the contents of your tarball so you can find out the full path and name of any files that match the part you know, and then use tar to extract that one file now you know its exact details, or you can use two little known switches to just extract all files that match what little you do know of your file name—you don't need to know the full name or any part of its path for this option.
HalosGhost 4, 10 10 gold badges 31 31 silver badges 40 40 bronze badges. Wendy Cricks Wendy Cricks 4 4 silver badges 2 2 bronze badges. You might have to be patient with these, took a while Also maybe it's obvious, but it's going to extract the full directory structure in the current directory, even if those directories don't exist yet.
BSD tar at least on macOS doesn't support the --wildcards option. Please find below the examples of extracting specific files from tar. Bernhard Bernhard 11k 3 3 gold badges 56 56 silver badges 69 69 bronze badges. Then obiously extract11 is not in the tar-file.
Be sure that you need to provide the relative path. See edit — Bernhard. Sign up or log in Sign up using Google. Choose your interests Get the latest news, expert insights and market research, sent straight to your inbox. Newsletter Topics Select minimum 1 topic. Operating Systems. Anonymous February 12, 0 Comments. Jalal Hajigholamali Posted February 12, 0 Comments. Mehdi Salehi Posted February 13, 0 Comments. Dinesh Bahadur Posted February 13, 0 Comments. Anonymous Posted February 13, 0 Comments.
HI Dinesh, I did what you suggested here and I found that actually your command converts all the files to pdf1. Hi, Please try this command. Hope this will resolve your problem. Hamid Alizadeh Posted February 14, 0 Comments.
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