{"id":799,"date":"2012-04-25T00:23:53","date_gmt":"2012-04-24T14:23:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/makesomecode.com\/?p=799"},"modified":"2015-01-16T22:29:52","modified_gmt":"2015-01-16T22:29:52","slug":"tar-and-gzip-files-from-linux-command-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nickv.codes\/blog\/tar-and-gzip-files-from-linux-command-line\/","title":{"rendered":"tar and gzip files from linux command line"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes it&#8217;s hard to remember all the options you need to include to tar and gzip files or a folder from the command line. Here it is&#8230;<\/p>\n<pre class=\"prettyprint lang-bsh\">tar -cvzf tarballname.tar.gz myfilestocompress<\/pre>\n<p>To untar and unzip simply do:<\/p>\n<pre class=\"prettyprint lang-bsh\">tar xvfz filename.tar.gz<\/pre>\n<p>And if there are only certain files you want in the tar then do:<\/p>\n<pre class=\"prettyprint lang-bsh\">tar xvzf filename.tar.gz *\/dir.you.want\/*<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes it&#8217;s hard to remember all the options you need to include to tar and gzip files or a folder from the command line. Here it is&#8230; tar -cvzf tarballname.tar.gz myfilestocompress To untar and unzip simply do: tar xvfz filename.tar.gz And if there are only certain files you want in the tar then do: tar [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[33,64],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickv.codes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickv.codes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickv.codes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickv.codes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickv.codes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nickv.codes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickv.codes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickv.codes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickv.codes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}