Linux Tar Description&A Demo Task

Linux Tar Description

DESCRIPTION:

Tar stores and extracts files from a tape or disk archive.

How to use:

The first argument to tar should be a function (list the Most commonly used)

• -c     create a new archive
• -x     extract files from an archive
• -f     use archive file or device ARCHIVE
• -v     verbosely list files processed
• -z     gzip
• -j     bzip2
• -J     xz

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Examples:

• Create archive.tar from files foo and bar,the archive.tar is the same size of the files
  tar -cf archive.tar foo bar
• Create archive.tar by using gzip from files foo and bar,z means zip,the sizes decreases
  tar -czf archive.tar foo bar
• performs the function above but verbosely list files
  tar -czvf archive.tar foo bar
• this is identical to above except that the files are extracted instead of archived
  tar -zxvf archive.tar

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My One Task:

Send the document in 2017 to another server and keep the dir structure fixed.Hovever,there are thousands of small files ,so I should archived all the files located in 2017 directories before transfering for the purpose to Maximum utilization ofnetwork throughput.

Directories:

FutureDB/
├── DCE
│ ├── Day
│ │ ├── 2017.01.29
│ │ ├── …
│ │ ├── 2016.01.29
│ │ ├── …
│ ├── DB
│ └── Night
│ ├── 2017.01.29
│ ├── …
│ ├── 2016.01.29
│ ├── …
├── SHFE
│ ├── Day
│ │ ├── 2017.01.29
│ │ ├── …
│ │ ├── 2016.01.29
│ ├── DB
│ └── Night
│ ├── 2017.01.29
│ ├── …
│ ├── 2016.01.29
└── ZCZE
├── Day
│ ├── 2017.01.29
│ ├── …
│ ├── 2016.01.29
├── DB
└── Night
├── 2017.01.29
├── …

It is very convenient by using this command to archive

   tar czvf /mnt/FutureDBDay.tar $(find /mnt/FutureDB/ -maxdepth 3 -name '2017.*' ) &

How to extract more than one tars

    ls *.tar.gz | xargs -n1 tar xzvf