bash: Managing Files & Archives

Append whatever to the end of filename:

$ echo 'whatever' >> filename

Creates .tar archive of specified directory(s):

$ tar -cvf filename.tar folder1/ folder2/

Show contents of archive:

$ tar -tf filename.tar

Extract contents of archive to pwd:

$ tar -xvf filename.tar

Extract contents of archive to specific folder:

$ tar -xvf filename.tar -C /destination/directory/

• -z For working with tar.gz files
• -j For working with tar.bz2 files

Puts all files from pwd into data.zip:

$ zip data *

Zips up entire directory and subdirectories:

$ zip -r data *

Unzip archive into pwd:

$ unzip data.zip

Unzip archive into specific folder:

$ unzip data.zip -d /destination/directory

Test archive for validity:

$ unzip -tq data.zip

lftp and ftp

CLI FTP clients.

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