{"id":3116,"date":"2019-03-10T18:59:01","date_gmt":"2019-03-10T10:59:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ookangzheng.com\/?p=3116"},"modified":"2020-05-24T15:58:28","modified_gmt":"2020-05-24T07:58:28","slug":"linux-tar-gz-bz2-xz-comparison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ookangzheng.com\/linux-tar-gz-bz2-xz-comparison\/","title":{"rendered":"Linux tar gz, bz2, xz comparison"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In the UNIX\/Linux community, traditionally, if you want to compress files, you usually use tar plus gzip compression. Later, gzip is gradually replaced by bzip2, and now more and more people are using LZMA2. Xz to compress the tar file, even kernel.org also started from the end of 2013, while using the tar.gz and tar.xz compression format to release the Linux kernel source code, while the hyperlink on the home page is directly using tar. Xz This format, the previous tar.bz2 is directly discarded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><code><strong>tar.gz or tgz<\/strong><\/code><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\">\/\/ Compress <br \/>tar zcvf file_name.tar.gz dir_name<br \/>\/\/ Decompress<br \/>tar zxvf file_name.tar.gz<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><code>tar.bz2<\/code><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\">\/\/ Compress<br \/>tar jcvf file_name.tar.bz2 dir_name<br \/>\/\/ Decompress<br \/><gwmw class=\"ginger-module-highlighter-mistake-type-1\" id=\"gwmw-15541924865149060486488\">tar<\/gwmw> <gwmw class=\"ginger-module-highlighter-mistake-type-1\" id=\"gwmw-15541924865146408467984\">jxvf<\/gwmw> file_name.tar.bz2<br \/><strong>tar<\/strong> -jxvf bar.tar.bz2  -C <strong>\/<\/strong>tmp<strong>\/<\/strong>bar<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><code>tar.xz<\/code><gwmw style=\"display:none;\"><\/gwmw><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\">\/\/ Compress<br \/>tar Jcvf file_name.tar.xz dir_name<br \/>\/\/ Decompress<br \/><gwmw class=\"ginger-module-highlighter-mistake-type-1\" id=\"gwmw-15541924719434596719589\">tar<\/gwmw> Jxvf file_name<gwmw class=\"ginger-module-highlighter-mistake-type-3\" id=\"gwmw-15541924719434200352181\">.<\/gwmw>tar<gwmw class=\"ginger-module-highlighter-mistake-type-3\" id=\"gwmw-15541924719430613346181\">.<\/gwmw><gwmw class=\"ginger-module-highlighter-mistake-type-1\" id=\"gwmw-15541924719438770610712\">xz<\/gwmw><br \/><gwmw class=\"ginger-module-highlighter-mistake-type-1\" id=\"gwmw-15541924725077545840066\">tar<\/gwmw> -<gwmw class=\"ginger-module-highlighter-mistake-type-1\" id=\"gwmw-15541924725078129864948\">jxf<\/gwmw> file<gwmw class=\"ginger-module-highlighter-mistake-type-3\" id=\"gwmw-15541924725072928740213\">.<\/gwmw>tar --directory \/path\/to\/directory<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">tar archive<gwmw style=\"display:none;\"><\/gwmw><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\">\/\/ Tar archive without compress<br \/>tar -cvf \/home\/www\/images.tar \/home\/www\/images<br \/>\/\/ Extract <gwmw class=\"ginger-module-highlighter-mistake-type-1\" id=\"gwmw-15541924222762856660993\">untar<\/gwmw><br \/>tar -<gwmw class=\"ginger-module-highlighter-mistake-type-1\" id=\"gwmw-15541924226503028244870\">xvf<\/gwmw> <gwmw class=\"ginger-module-highlighter-mistake-anim ginger-module-highlighter-mistake-type-1\" id=\"gwmw-15541924473081453156717\">images.tar<\/gwmw> \/xxx <br \/>tar -zxf file.tar --directory \/path\/to\/directory<br \/><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Photo by&nbsp;<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/photos\/RPUI6gtn49g?utm_source=unsplash&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_content=creditCopyText\"><em>Joshua Newton<\/em><\/a><em>&nbsp;on&nbsp;<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/search\/photos\/magic?utm_source=unsplash&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_content=creditCopyText\"><em>Unsplash<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the UNIX\/Linux community, traditionally, if you want to compress files, you usually use tar plus gzip compression. 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