Thread: tar command help
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Old 10-10-2004, 12:04 PM  
xenophobic
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Quote:
Originally posted by Magg
tar -cf one.tar one


to extract:

tar -xf one.tar one
tar is only an archive, to create compressed backups you would need to do
tar -zcf one.tar.gz one

to extract
tar -zxvf one.tar.gz
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