In maintaining linux systems I often find that I need to zip the contents of a folder or unzip some settings.\u00a0 Zip is useful for compressing and transmitting files.\u00a0 There isn’t anything new here and it is straight out of the man pages but since I only use it once every 6 months I’m going to summarize it here.<\/p>\n
To zip a group of files in a directory, cd to that directory and with the command below you get stuff.zip in the same directory:<\/p>\n
zip stuff *<\/code><\/pre>\n <\/p>\n
If you want the hidden files in a directory add the . wildcard:<\/p>\n
zip stuff .* *<\/code><\/pre>\n <\/p>\n
That doesn’t get you any subdirectories to get that use:<\/p>\n
zip -r stuff foo<\/code><\/pre>\n <\/p>\n
That command will create a stuff.zip archive of the foo directory.<\/p>\n
To unzip stuff.zip into the current directory and any subdirectories below it, creating subdirectories as necessary:<\/p>\n
unzip stuff<\/code><\/pre>\n <\/p>\n
unzip -tq stuff<\/code><\/pre>\n <\/p>\n
Will test and print out if the Archive is OK.<\/p>\n
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Tar files like Newfile.tar.Z can gzip on creation or extraction. To unarchive a tar file use<\/p>\n
tar -xvf Newfile.tar<\/code><\/pre>\n <\/p>\n
or<\/p>\n
tar -Zxvf Newfile.tar.Z #Capitol Z is used for compress or<\/code><\/pre>\ntar -zxvf Newfile.tar.zip #for a gzip, gunzip file or<\/code><\/pre>\ntar -jxvf Newfile.tar.bzip2 #for a bzip2 archive<\/code><\/pre>\n <\/p>\n
where -z -Z -j or -a (auto-compress) will compress. -x = extract, -v = verbose, -t = file<\/p>\n
tar -cf Newfile.tar foo bar<\/code><\/pre>\n <\/p>\n
-c = create will create an archive of foo and bar files.\u00a0 You can use * for the directory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
In maintaining linux systems I often find that I need to zip the contents of a folder or unzip some settings.\u00a0 Zip is useful for compressing and transmitting files.\u00a0 There isn’t anything new here and it is straight out of the man pages but since I only use it once every 6 months I’m going<\/p>\n