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Archive and compression

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Create a new archive   tar -c  
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Verbose - list files being written   tar -v  
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Specify the file to create or unpack   tar -f  
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Compress/decompress a file using gzip   tar -z  
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Extract the files   tar -x  
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Compress/decompress a file using bzip2   tar -j  
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Change to a specified directory   tar -C  
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List the contents of an archive   tar -t  
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Backup and compress the /home directory to /root/home_backup.tar.gz   tar -cvzf /root/home/backup.tar.gz /home  
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Extract and decompress /root/home/backup.tar.gz to the /home directory   tar -xvzf /root/home/backup.tar.gz /home  
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Write to standard output   gzip/gunzip - c  
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Decompress a file using gunzip   gunzip -d  
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Recursively compress/decompress all files in directories/subdirectories   gzip/gunzip - r  
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Suppress warnings with gzip   gzip -q  
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Show gzip help screen   gzip -h  
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Show gzip Licence   gzip -L  
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Save the original file name and time stamp with gzip   gzip -N  
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Omit saving original file and time stamp   gzip -n  
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Check compressed file for integrity   gzip -t  
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Force compression/decompression of file even if it has multiple links or the corresponding file already exists   gzip/gunzip -f  
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Keep original file unchanged using bzip2   bzip2 -k  
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Append newer or updated files on an existing tar file (overwrite)   tar -u  
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Append the newer files to the end of an existing tar file   tar -r  
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