Java™ Application Development on Linux - Dator

1.3 Basic Linux Concepts and Commands27• c: Create an archive.• x: Extract from an archive.• t: Get a table of contents.In addition, you’ll want to know these options:• f: The next parameter is the filename of the archive.• v: Provide more verbose output.Using these options, Table 1.4 shows examples of each of the basicfunctions.Now let’s do the same thing using the zip command (Table 1.5). Thereare actually two commands here—one to compress the files into an archive(zip), and the other to reverse the process (unzip).Table 1.4 Examples of the tar commandCommandtar tvf packedup.tartar xvf packedup.tartar cvf packedup.tar mydirExplanationGives a table of contents, in long (or verbose) form.Without the v, all you get is the filenames; with the vyou get additional information similar in format to thels -l command.Extracts all the files from the TAR file, creating themaccording to their specified pathname, assuming youruser ID and file permissions allow it. Remove the voption if you don’t want to see each filename as the fileis extracted.Creates a TAR archive named packedup.tar fromthe mydir directory and its contents. Remove the voption if you don’t want to see each filename as the fileis added to the archive.letter options. Newer POSIX versions of UNIX and the GNU tools, which means all flavorsof Linux, also support longer full-word options prefixed with a double minus, as in --extractinstead of x or -x.