CLI |> Compress and Decompress via CLI

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macOS

• file.zip

  extract to the current directory

  unzip file.zip

  extract to the target directory

  unzip file.zip -d target_dir_path

  compress to file.zip

  zip file path1 path2 path3

• file.tar (archive, no compress)

  extract to the current directory

  tar -xvf file.tar

  extract to target_dir_path (must be created first)

  mkdir -p target_dir_path && tar -C target_dir_path -xvf file.tar

  compress path

  tar -cvf file.tar path1 path2

• file.tar.gz file.tgz

  tar.gz file is a Tar archive compressed with Gzip

  extract to the current directory

  tar -zxvf file.tar.gz

  extract to target_dir_path (must be created first)

  mkdir -p target_dir_path && tar -C target_dir_path -zxvf file.tar.gz

  compress path

  tar -czvf file.tar.gz path1 path2 ...

  compress with exclude

  tar -czvf file.tar.gz path --exclude=sub_path1 --exclude=sub_path2

  tar -czvf file.tar.gz path --exclude={sub_path1, sub_path2}

  tar -czvf file.tar.gz path --exclude=*.ext

• file.tar.xz

  tar.gz file is a Tar archive compressed with Xz a LZMA based compress algorithm

  tar auto-detects compression type and extracts the archive

  tar -xf file.tar.xz

• file.tar.bz2 file.tbz

  tar.bz2 file is a Tar archive compressed with Bzip2

  extract to the current directory

  tar -xvf file.tar.bz2

  extract to target_dir_path (--directory, -C; must be created first)

  mkdir -p target_dir_path && tar -xvf file.tar.bz2 -C target_dir_path

  extract specific files

  tar -xf archive.tar.bz2 file1 file2 dir1 dir2

  tar -xf archive.tar.bz2 --wildcards '*.md'

  extract from stdin

  wget -c ftp://ftp.vim.org/pub/vim/unix/vim-8.1.tar.bz2 -O - | sudo tar -xj

  list archive content (--list, -t)

  tar -tvf file.tar.bz2

  compress path

  tar -cjvf file.tar.bz2 path1 path2

GNU/Linux

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References:

• https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/linux-howto-unzip-files-in-root-directory/
• https://www.hostingmanual.net/zipping-unzipping-files-unix/
• https://linuxize.com/post/how-to-create-and-extract-archives-using-the-tar-command-in-linux/
• https://linuxize.com/post/how-to-extract-unzip-tar-bz2-file
• https://www.pendrivelinux.com/how-to-open-a-tar-file-in-unix-or-linux/
• https://www.howtogeek.com/248780/how-to-compress-and-extract-files-using-the-tar-command-on-linux/
• https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/25311/create-target-directory-when-extracting-tarball