Tar cheatsheet

Since I often find myself searching for examples using tar I thought I’d compile some examples using the settings I most commonly use.

Create a new archive called archive.tar from the files contained in /some/directory.

tar -cvf archive.tar /some/directory

Create a new archive called archive.tar from all of the ruby (_.rb_) files in the current directory.

tar -cvf archive.tar *.rb

View the contents of an archive called archive.tar

tar -ft archive.tar

Add the file file.