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     bro tar
    4 entries for tar -- submit your own example with "bro add tar"

    # Create a tar archive
    tar -cf archive.tar file1 file2 ... fileN

    # Create a tar gzipp'd archive
    tar -zcf archive.tar.gz file1 file2 ... fileN

    # Create multi-part tar archives from a directory
    tar cf - /path/to/directory|split -b<max_size_of_part>M - archive.tar

    # Extract all files from a tar archive
    tar -xf archive.tar

    # Extract all files from a tar gzipped archive
    tar -zxf archive.tar.gz

    # Extract one file from a tar archive
    tar -xf archive.tar the_one_file

    # Lists all files in a tar archive
    tar -tf archive.tar

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    # Create a tar file:
    tar cf archive.tar file1 [...]

    # Create a compressed tar file:
    tar cjf archive.tar.bz2 file1 [...]

    # Create a older compressed tar file:
    tar czf archive.tar.gz file [...]

    # Extract a .tar, .tar.gz, .tgz, .tar.bz, or .tbz2 file:
    tar xf archive.tbz2

    # list the files inside the archive:
    tar tf archive.tar

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    # unpacking stuff with tar is obnoxious
    # heres a useful shell script for unpacking with tar
    # throw it in your .bashrc as a function or whatever.
    if [ -f "$1" ] ; then
            case "$1" in
                    *.tar.bz2)   tar xvjf "$1"    ;;
                    *.tar.gz)    tar xvzf "$1"    ;;
                    *.tar)       tar xvf "$1"     ;;
                    *.tbz2)      tar xvjf "$1"    ;;
                    *.tgz)       tar xvzf "$1"    ;;
                    *.tar.xz)    tar xJf "$1"     ;;
                    *) echo "don't know how to extract "$1"..." ;;
            esac
    else
            echo ""$1" is not a valid file!"
    fi

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    # unpacking stuff with tar is obnoxious
    # check out unp (unpack (almost) everything)
    brew install unp
    apt-get install unp

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