And yes, look at this, the summary. It means that we've reached the end.
Congratulations.
Now, we've taken a look at using the tar command, or at
least, that's where we started out.
So with the tar command, we can use it to create archive
files, but we don't need to worry about tapes.
Now by an archive file,
we really mean a single file that represents maybe one file,
but very often many files inside of the single file, and we've
seen that we can get then better utilization out of our disk
space, even without compression.
But of course, if we really want to optimize our disk
space, then compression is available to us.
We can independently compress the archive or any file using the gzip command,
the bzip2 command, the xz command, if we want better compression.
But also, these will include options, allowing us to call
them from with inside of the tar command.
But if we are using these options inside of tar, we've got to remember
that these programs are still called independently.
So we run the tar command, and then we run the gzip command or the xz command,
whatever utility we are using.
And finally, we finished up by taking a look at another archiving
utility, the cpio utility, where we can take the output of a command and
send that through to an archive and restore using input to cpio. So
that's it. We're done and dusted with this. Please get plenty of practice
with these commands, and then you know they are really going to stick
inside your long‑term storage. But when we are ready to move on, in our
next module,
we're going to be taking a look at how we can manage Linux file systems. I do look forward to seeing you very soon in this module.