untarring .tar.gz via ssh

I've got a .tar.gz folder in the root of a *nix server to which I have shell access and I'd like to

a) zip up and backup an old folder that's elsewhere on the server and
b) unzip my .tar.gz folder in its place

Any help greatly appreciated

 

For zip/unzip, you need to have the packages installed.
http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-7.2-Manual/getting-started-guide/s1-zip-tar.html

To untar an archive :
tar zxvf archivename.tar.gz

 

You have have to un-gzip it first though:

gzip -d archivename.tar.gz

 

tar zxvf works just right for me (no ungzip needed)

 

You could scp in server and move the folder ?

 

To tar a folder

tar -czvf filename.tar.gz /path/to/folder/

To tar a directory you are in with all files

tar -czvf filename.tar.gz *

To untar

tar -zxvf filename.tar.gz

That's it really.

 

@agnivo007 ~ thanks for that, lots of commands in that link for future ref for when I don't have my *nix book at hand and my interpreters head on
@tonyrocks ~ I didn't need to un-gzip in the end
@Camay123 ~ I don't know what scp is and I couldn't use the mv command effectively (*nixnoob)
@RectangleMan ~ Ah, perfect, thank you so much

 

http://winscp.net/eng/docs/lang:fr

This is free scp software.

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