Mod:Hunt Research Group/file move

Moving large files, or directories around

• Use dropbox if they are not too large, otherwise
• Use the "tar" command

If you have not used this command before **practice** (make up a directory with some test files in it) since you can destroy the WHOLE directory if you do it wrong.

• for example, for a directory called "jobs"

tar -cvfz jobs.tar.gz jobs

the -c command means concatonate all files

the -v is for verbose output

the -f is to create a file

the -z is to compress or gzip the whole lot

• to uncompress and expand out

gunzip jobs.tar.gz
tar -xvf jobs.tar

we need to uncompress first using the gzip utility

then use the tar command to expand the decompressed file

the -x is to expand