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macOS
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file.zip
extract to the current directory
unzip file.zip
extract to the target directory
unzip file.zip -d target_dir_path
compress to file.zip
zip file path1 path2 path3
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file.tar (archive, no compress)
extract to the current directory
tar -xvf file.tar
extract to target_dir_path (must be created first)
mkdir -p target_dir_path && tar -C target_dir_path -xvf file.tar
compress path
tar -cvf file.tar path1 path2
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file.tar.gz file.tgz
tar.gz file is a Tar archive compressed with Gzip
extract to the current directory
tar -zxvf file.tar.gz
extract to target_dir_path (must be created first)
mkdir -p target_dir_path && tar -C target_dir_path -zxvf file.tar.gz
compress path
tar -czvf file.tar.gz path1 path2 ...
compress with exclude
tar -czvf file.tar.gz path --exclude=sub_path1 --exclude=sub_path2
tar -czvf file.tar.gz path --exclude={sub_path1, sub_path2}
tar -czvf file.tar.gz path --exclude=*.ext
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file.tar.xz
tar.gz file is a Tar archive compressed with Xz a LZMA based compress algorithm
tar auto-detects compression type and extracts the archive
tar -xf file.tar.xz
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file.tar.bz2 file.tbz
tar.bz2 file is a Tar archive compressed with Bzip2
extract to the current directory
tar -xvf file.tar.bz2
extract to target_dir_path (--directory, -C; must be created first)
mkdir -p target_dir_path && tar -xvf file.tar.bz2 -C target_dir_path
extract specific files
tar -xf archive.tar.bz2 file1 file2 dir1 dir2
tar -xf archive.tar.bz2 --wildcards '*.md'
extract from stdin
wget -c ftp://ftp.vim.org/pub/vim/unix/vim-8.1.tar.bz2 -O - | sudo tar -xj
list archive content (--list, -t)
tar -tvf file.tar.bz2
compress path
tar -cjvf file.tar.bz2 path1 path2
GNU/Linux
References:
- https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/linux-howto-unzip-files-in-root-directory/
- https://www.hostingmanual.net/zipping-unzipping-files-unix/
- https://linuxize.com/post/how-to-create-and-extract-archives-using-the-tar-command-in-linux/
- https://linuxize.com/post/how-to-extract-unzip-tar-bz2-file
- https://www.pendrivelinux.com/how-to-open-a-tar-file-in-unix-or-linux/
- https://www.howtogeek.com/248780/how-to-compress-and-extract-files-using-the-tar-command-on-linux/
- https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/25311/create-target-directory-when-extracting-tarball
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