[root@localhost sed]# cheat tar # To extract an uncompressed archive: tar -xvf /path/to/foo.tar
# To create an uncompressed archive: tar -cvf /path/to/foo.tar /path/to/foo/
# To extract a .gz archive: tar -xzvf /path/to/foo.tgz
# To create a .gz archive: tar -czvf /path/to/foo.tgz /path/to/foo/
# To list the content of an .gz archive: tar -ztvf /path/to/foo.tgz
# To extract a .bz2 archive: tar -xjvf /path/to/foo.tgz
# To create a .bz2 archive: tar -cjvf /path/to/foo.tgz /path/to/foo/
# To extract a .tar in specified Directory: tar -xvf /path/to/foo.tar -C /path/to/destination/
# To list the content of an .bz2 archive: tar -jtvf /path/to/foo.tgz
# To create a .gz archive and exclude all jpg,gif,... from the tgz tar czvf /path/to/foo.tgz --exclude=\*.{jpg,gif,png,wmv,flv,tar.gz,zip} /path/to/foo/
# To use parallel (multi-threaded) implementation of compression algorithms: tar -z ... -> tar -Ipigz ... tar -j ... -> tar -Ipbzip2 ... tar -J ... -> tar -Ipixz ... [root@localhost sed]#