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How to Compress and Extract Files Using the tar Command on Linux

The tar command on Linux is used to create and extract TAR archive files. Run "tar -czvf archive-name.tar.gz /path/to/file” in the Terminal to compress a file or folder. To extract an archive to the ...
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rpmbuild for a single tar file to extract to a dir

This is stupid but I have no choice, what I have is single folder with 6 subdirs full of files. What I need to do create a tar file and slap this tar file into an RPM so when the RPM runs it takes the ...