28 Aug 2020

CLI |> Compress and Decompress via CLI

macOS

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

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

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

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

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

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CLI |> Compress and Decompress via CLI

macOS

GNU/Linux