how-do-i-use-the-tar-command-line-in-windows---.md

How do I use the tar command line in Windows 10?

// plain

The tar command line utility is available for Windows 10 through the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL). To use it, you must first install WSL and then install a Linux distribution of your choice.

Once you have installed WSL, open a command prompt and type wsl to enter the Linux environment. Then you can use the tar command to create, extract, and view the contents of a tar file.

For example, to create a tar file called example.tar from the folder myfiles, you would use the following command:

tar -cf example.tar myfiles

This will create a tar file of the contents of the myfiles folder. To extract the contents of the tar file, you would use the following command:

tar -xf example.tar

This will extract the contents of example.tar into the current directory. To view the contents of the tar file without extracting it, you would use the following command:

tar -tf example.tar

This will list the contents of example.tar.

List of code parts

• tar - the command to run the tar utility
• -cf - create a tar file
• -xf - extract the contents of a tar file
• -tf - view the contents of a tar file

List of relevant links

• Windows Subsystem for Linux
• Tar Command Reference

onelinerhub: How do I use the tar command line in Windows 10?