Tar Stuff

#tar -c creates tarball -f specifies tarball name -p Preserve file permissions. Default for the root user. Specify this if you create an archive as a normal user -r appends files to the end of an extant uncompressed tarball -t List contents of a tarball -u Appends files to the end of an extant uncompressed tarball provided the specified files being added are newer -v verbose -x Extracts or restores from a tarball -P override the removing of “/” -j Compress tarball with bzip2 -z Compress tarball with gzip