Add tar cheatsheet (#1870)

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title: tar
category: CLI
layout: 2017/sheet
updated: 2022-08-11
intro: Concatenate, Deflate, Inflate files
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## Reference
{:.-two-column}
### Deflate / Inflate / Concatenate
```shell
# Deflate / Compress
tar -czf archive.tar.gz /path/files
```
```shell
# Inflate / Uncompress
tar -xzf archive.tar.gz
```
```shell
# Concatenate files into a single tar
tar -cf archive.tar /path/files
```
```shell
# Extract file to a defined directory
tar -xzf archive.tar.gz -C /target/directory
```
```shell
# Append a file to an existing archive
tar -zu archive.tar.gz -C /target/file
```
### Common options
| Option | Description |
|--------|--------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| `z` | compress with gzip |
| `c` | create an archive |
| `u` | append files which are newer than the corresponding copy ibn the archive |
| `f` | filename of the archive |
| `v` | verbose, display what is inflated or deflated |
| `a` | unlike of `z`, determine compression based on file extension |