tar (create and extract archives) in Linux CLI - Interactive Code Practice

Practice - 5 Tasks

1fill in blank

easy

Complete the command to create a tar archive named archive.tar from the folder myfolder.

Linux CLI

tar [1] archive.tar myfolder

Drag options to blanks, or click blank then click option'

A-rvf

B-xvf

C-tvf

D-cvf

Attempts:

3 left

💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Using '-xvf' which is for extracting archives.

Using '-tvf' which lists archive contents instead of creating.

The option '-cvf' tells tar to create an archive (c), be verbose (v), and specify the filename (f).

2fill in blank

medium

Complete the command to extract the contents of archive.tar into the current directory.

Linux CLI

tar [1] archive.tar

Drag options to blanks, or click blank then click option'

A-cvf

B-tvf

C-xvf

D-rvf

Attempts:

3 left

💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Using '-cvf' which creates archives instead of extracting.

Using '-tvf' which only lists contents.

The option '-xvf' tells tar to extract (x), be verbose (v), and specify the filename (f).

3fill in blank

hard

Fix the error in the command to list the contents of archive.tar.

Linux CLI

tar [1] archive.tar

Drag options to blanks, or click blank then click option'

A-tvf

B-xvf

C-cvf

D-rvf

Attempts:

3 left

💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Using '-xvf' which extracts instead of listing.

Using '-cvf' which creates archives.

The option '-tvf' lists the contents (t) of the archive verbosely (v) and specifies the filename (f).

4fill in blank

hard

Fill both blanks to create a compressed gzip tar archive named archive.tar.gz from folder myfolder.

Linux CLI

tar [1] [2] -f archive.tar.gz myfolder

Drag options to blanks, or click blank then click option'

A-z

B-x

C-c

D-v

Attempts:

3 left

💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Using '-x' which extracts instead of creating.

Forgetting the '-z' option for gzip compression.

Use '-c' to create the archive and '-z' to compress it with gzip.

5fill in blank

hard

Fill all three blanks to extract a bzip2 compressed tar archive named archive.tar.bz2 verbosely.

Linux CLI

tar [1] [2] [3] -f archive.tar.bz2

Drag options to blanks, or click blank then click option'

A-x

B-v

C-j

D-c

Attempts:

3 left

💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Using '-c' which creates archives instead of extracting.

Forgetting '-j' for bzip2 compressed files.

Use '-x' to extract, '-v' for verbose output, and '-j' to handle bzip2 compression.