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Cheat Sheet: tar

The tar command is a file archiving utility in Unix-based systems that is used to create, extract, and manage tape archive files, commonly used for compressing and bundling multiple files and directories into a single archive file.

tar cheat sheet

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tar -xzf archive.tar.gz

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