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UNIX : unpack and pack using tar


Tarball or tar is a utility in linux to unpack or pack the files.

Lets say we have a file name hello.tar.gz which is packed and compressed.

To unpack the file use the below command

> tar xvzf hello.tar.gz

This is unpack the compressed tarball file to the directory hello in current location.

To pack a list of files to a compressed tarball file , we can follow the below steps.

Let say we have the following list of files in Hello directory.

> cd Hello

> ls
helloworld.py
README.txt

Move back to parent directory and give the below command.

> cd ..

> tar zcvf hello.tar.gz Hello

This will create the compressed tar file in the current location


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