Archiving

Creating archives and compress files.

Windows

zip

zip archive.zip file

Create or update archive.zip, put file in there. If file is already existing in the archive it is replaced.

zip -r archive.zip path

Create or update archive.zip, put path and all below in there. Files existing in the archive are replaced.

unzip archive.zip file

Extract file from archive.zip and put it in the current directory

unzip archive.zip path

Extract path from archive.zip and put it in the current directory. Use quotes if path has wildcards.

unzip -l archive.zip

List all files in the archive.

unzip -l archive.zip path

List path if it is in the archive.

Unix and Linux

tar

tar cvf archive.tar path

Create archive.tar and put all file under path in it. Be verbose, list what is done (-v)

tar xvf archive.tar path

Extract path from archive.tar, put it in the current directory. Be verbose, list what is done (-v)

tar tf archive.tar path

List what is in archive.tar.

tar cvzf archive.tgz path

Create gzipped archive.tgz and put all file under path in it. Be verbose, list what is done (-v).

Similar for x and t, the z makes tar work on gzipped archives