News Collaboration Media Projects DevNotes   Audio/Video   Graphics   Internet   Prog. Lang.   Tips/Misc. BetaWorks   Magic Video Project   ImageScape   LML Website(NEW) Research   Content Based Retrieval   Interactive Video   Speech Interfaces   Virtual Studio People Archive	Using TAR in Unix by: (2 Jun 2015) This article gives some examples of using the Unix tar command TAR command examples (UNIX) Archive a directory: tar -cvf tarfile.tar public_html Archive a set of files: tar -cvf tarfile.tar /var/log/syslog messages Archive and compress (gzip) a directory: tar -cvzf file.tar.gz public_html Extract a tar file: tar -xvf file.tar tar -xvzf file.tar.gz tar -xvjf file.tar.bz2 Display the content of a tar file: tar -tvf file.tar tar -tvzf file.tar.gz tar -tvjf file.tar.bz2 Replace a file in an existing tar file: tar -rvf tarfile.tar filetoreplace Update a file in an existing tar file: tar -uvf tarfile.tar newfile		Research Links Media Lab Overview LIACS Homepage MM Conf ACM Multimedia ACM ICMR IAPR ICPR Science Direct IEEE Library LIACS Publications ACM Digital Library