Tar

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tar_(computing)

Options

http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/tar.1.html

-c (--create)
-remove-files

Examples

• tar -cf new_file.tar /path/folder/to/tar
• tar -cvf new_file.tar /path/folder/to/tar

-c (--create)

With compression

• tar -Jcvf new_file.tar.xz /path/folder/to/tar or tar Jcvf new_file.tar.xz /path/folder/to/tar

-J, --xz

-j, --bzip2

--lzip Filter the archive through lzip

--lzma Filter the archive through lzma

--lzop Filter the archive through lzop

--no-auto-compress Do not use archive suffix to determine the compression program

-z, --gzip, --gunzip, --ungzip Filter the archive through gzip

-Z, --compress, --uncompress Filter the archive through compress

--zstd Filter the archive through zstd

Compress directory using xz multithread capabilities

tar c your_directory | xz -T0 -c > your_file_name.tar.xz

Related terms

• docker save
• docker load
• docker export
• progress
• UID and GID
• file changed as we read it

See also

• Data compression: LZMA, xz, unxz, xz -t, xz -q, xz -T0, xz -9, zstd, Igor Pavlov

https://stackoverflow.com/a/18855909