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talaris on 11/30/-1

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tar -czvf file.tar.gz dir/*

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Posted By: jmiller on July 8, 2010

Type tar -zxvf yourfile.tar to extract the file to the current directory. Or tar -C /myfolder -zxvf yourfile.tar to extract to another directory.