Useful Shell Commands

Written by Miles Reed

Wednesday, 22 November 2006

Command Why it Rocks tar zxvf yourfile.tar.gz uncompresses and then unzips you tar.gz file into the current directory du –sh folder name get disk usage per folder tar cvf dest_dir/filename.tar source_dir tarball (archive) a directory (recursively) compress dir/home.tar compress the tarball

 

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