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tar --version
which tar

Compress

Compress

cd /etc/nginx
tar -czvf chorke-nginx_academia-production-D20240628-T2023-ZP0800.tar.gz sites-enabled
tar --exclude=default -czvf chorke-nginx_academia-production-D20240628-T2023-ZP0800.tar.gz sites-enabled

Decompress

Decompress

tar -tzvf chorke-nginx_academia-production-D20240628-T2023-ZP0800.tar.gz
tar -xzvf chorke-nginx_academia-production-D20240628-T2023-ZP0800.tar.gz
tar -xzvf chorke-nginx_academia-production-D20240628-T2023-ZP0800.tar.gz -C chorke-nginx-academia-production

Explanation

Explanation

-c: Create a new archive
-x: Extract the archive
-z: Compress the archive with gzip
-v: Verbosely list files processed
-t: List the contents of the archive
-f: Specifies the name of the archive

Cheatsheet

Cheatsheet

Type Short Compress Decompress Algorithm
tar.gz -z time tar -czvf nginx.2024-06-30T1519.tar.gz  nginx time tar -xzvf nginx.2024-06-30T1519.tar.gz DEFLATE=LZ77+Huffman 🟢
tar.xz -J time tar -cJvf nginx.2024-06-30T1519.tar.xz  nginx time tar -xJvf nginx.2024-06-30T1519.tar.xz LZMA2 🟠
tar.bz2 -j time tar -cjvf nginx.2024-06-30T1519.tar.bz2 nginx time tar -xjvf nginx.2024-06-30T1519.tar.bz2 BZIP2 🟡

DateTime Format

DateTime Format

echo      "$(TZ=UTC-8 date +'%Y-%m-%dT%H%M')"
echo            "$(TZ=UTC-8 date +'%FT%H%M')"
BKP_DATE_N_TIME="$(TZ=UTC-8 date +'%FT%H%M')"
:'
2025-10-10T1010
├─ 2025-10-21
│  ├─ 2025 « %Y
│  ├─   10 « %m
│  └─   10 « %d
└─ T1010
   ├─    T « Time
   ├─   10 « %H
   └─   10 « %M
'

References

References