Learn all about it in this article and more!
What istarand How Do I Install it?
It supports many features, including compressing and decompressing files on the fly when archiving them.
Let’s have a look at the options used in this command.
Next we have the-cand-foptions.
Note that they are just written together with the-in-h, i.e.
instead of specifying another-, we simply tag them onto the other shorthand options.
The-coption stand forcreate a new archive.
Note that by default directories are archived recursively, unless a –no-recursion option is also used.
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The-foption allows us to specify the name of the archive.
As you might see, the tar file is much larger then all of our files combined.
The files are simply being archived and some overall overhead fortaris being added.
Gaining More Bytes Using High Level Compression
Can we make the file even smaller?
Still, thebzip2andxzalgorithms may show improvements with other data sets.
