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date: 2006-09-25 13:19
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slug: tar-quickref
title: tar quickref

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<p>
 compress: tar cvzf foo.tgz *.cc *.h
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 check inside: tar tzf foo.tgz | grep file.txt
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 extract: tar xvzf foo.tgz
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 extract 1 file only: tar xvzf foo.tgz path/to/file.txt
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