Extracting a TAR
Extract linux tar gz (Gzip) archive
tar -xzvf mystuff.tgz
Extract linux simple tar archive
tar -xvf mystuff.tar
Extract linux tar archive to speciefied directory
tar -xvzf filename.tar.gz -C /desired/path Remove files and directoriesIf directory is not empty
If
you want to remove a directory with all its contents, you can use rm with the -r option. The -r option tells rm to remove a
directory recursively:
$ rm -r dir1
Above command won't prompt you before removing. If you want a warning use following::
$ rm -ir dir1 If directory is empty$ rmdir dir1
Copy or moveStandard format
$ cp -r dir1 dir2
To copy file1.txt in the current directory to the newdir directory. cp file1.txt newdir
To copy a file with different namecp /home/public_html/mylog.txt /home/public_html/backup/mylog.bak
[Copies the mylog.txt file in the public_html directory into the public_html/backup directory as mylog.bak. The files are identical however have different names.]
Copy all fines with an extension
cp *.txt newdir [Copy all files ending in .txt into the newdir directory.]
Copy all files and directories
cp -r /home/hope/files/* /home/hope/backup
[Copies all the files, directories, and subdirectories in the files directory into the backup directory.]
Copies with overwrite
yes | cp /home/hope/files/* /home/hope/files2
[Copies all the files and subdirectories in files into the files2 directory. If files with the same name exist or it's prompted to overwrite the file it answers yes.]
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