The Basics of using the Command Line tar Utility

In this video I go over the basics of using the tar (tape archive) utility on a Mac. This utility is also standard on most Linux distributions.

List Files in Directory

ls -lh

List Files Recursively

ls -R

Create tar Archive

tar -cvf data.tar data

Create tar Archive and gzip

tar -cvzf data.tar.gz data

Create tar Archive and bzip

tar -cvjf data.tar.bz2 data

Extract from tar Archive

tar -xvf data.tar