🖥️dar

➡️This is a command-line reference manual for commands and command combinations that you don’t use often enough to remember it. This cheatsheet explains the dar command with important options and switches using examples.

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# dar
# (disk archive), command-line archiving tool intended as a replacement for tar

# Create an archive of everything below source_dir
dar -R source_dir -c archive

# Extract an entire archive to a destination
dar -x archive dest_dir

# List the files in an archive
dar -l archive

# Extract a specific file from an archive into the
# current directory
dar -x archive -g file

# multiple files
dar -x archive -g file1 -g file2 -g file3

# For troubleshooting:
# --dry-run
# --verbose

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