How to Make Packages of Files on UNIX (2002)

by Norman Matloff.

One often needs to put a group of files into one single package file. This is typically for the purpose of copying the files from one machine to another. On UNIX systems, the most commonly used pack/unpack program is tar. One uses the c (“create”) command to pack, and the x (“extract”) command to unpack. For example, suppose I have files A, B and C, of which I wish to put copies into a file g.tar. I could type tar cf g.tar A B C The c option means I am creating a tar-file, while the f says that the next item on my command line will be the tar-file name. So, I am creating a tar-file named g.tar from the files A, B and C. [via]

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