RH124 v8.2 CH13 Part 1: Archiving and Transferring Files (tar, gzip, bizip2)

Which tar options allows you to preserve ACLs and SELinux context?

--xattrs

Which tar option allows you to use xz compression while creating the tar-ball?

-J

Which tar options do you need to create an archive?

-cf

Which tar options do you need to create an archive with verbose output?

-cvf

Which tar option is always the last one when creating or extracting an archive?

-f

Which tar option allows you to use bzip2 compression while creating the tar-ball?

-j

which tar option would allow you to list the content of an archive?

-t

Which option is used to restore files from an archive?

-x

Which tar options would extract the tar-ball configfiles.backup.tar?

-xf

Which tar option allows you to use gzip compression while creating the tar-ball?

-z

What comes after the tar -f option?

Name of tarball

True or False: Archives are created in the current directory unless otherwise specified.

True

True or False: The tar command extracts files relative to the current working directory.

True

Which tar option allows you to use xz compression while creating the tar-ball?

tar -cJf filename

What command would archive the passwd, hosts, and libc files into a tar-ball named foo.tar without their parent directories as part of the archive? /etc/passwd /etc/hosts /lib/libc.a

tar -cf foo.tar -C /etc passwd hosts -C /lib libc.a

Which of these tar commands would successfully create a tar-ball of /etc named mybackup.tar? choose one 1. tar -cfv mybackup.tar /etc/ 2. tar -fvc mybackup.tar /etc 3. tar -cvf /etc/ mybackup.tar 4. tar -cvf mybackup.tar /etc/

tar -cvf mybackup.tar /etc/

You want to make an archive of the files in /etc without including the /etc/ directory itself. How would you accomplish this without moving from you present location in the filesystem?

tar -czf etc.files.tar.gz -C /etc .

How would you list the content of etc.backup.tar

tar -tf etc.backup.tar

How would you list the files in mytarball.tar without extracting them

tar -tf mytarball.tar

List the content of the configfiles.backup.tar and display any file with passwd in its name

tar -tvf configfiles.backup.tar | grep passwd

You're currently in /root and want to extract a tar-ball of /var/log to its original location. The name of the file is: logs.backup.tar. What command would accomplish this without moving from /root?

tar -xf logs.backup.tar -C /

How would you use tar to extract a tar-ball that has been compressed with bzip2?

tar -xjf filename

How would you use tar to extract a tar-ball that has been compressed with gzip?

tar -xzf filename