C:\>cygwin\cygwin
CP
Copy from here to there.
$ cp -r path/fromDirectory path/toDirectory
CURL
Upload an archive at ftp location.
$ curl -T archive.tgz ftp://localhost -u newuser
GZIP
List the content of an archive.
$ gzip -l listContentsInMyFile.tar.gz
INFO
C:\>cygwin\cygwin
$ info commandName
MAN
C:\>cygwin\cygwin
$ man commandName
RM
Remove a file.
rm -v filename.ext
Remove a directory.
rm -rv directory
TAR
C:\>c:\cygwin\bin\tar -cvf createdMyStuff_C_Drive.tar myStuff_C_Drive
C:\>c:\cygwin\bin\tar -xvf extractMyStuff_C_Drive.tar
Uses GZIP to compress the file. tar converts directory into a file. gzip just compresses a file.
$ tar -cvzf backup.tgz directoryc = create, v = verbose, z = compress with GZIP, f = archive name
Extract the contents from the zip file.
$ tar -xvzf backup.tgzx = extract, v = verbose, z = use GZIP, f = archive name
For better compression you can use below also.
$ tar -cvjf backup.tar.bz2 directory
Decompress the backup using below command.
$ tar -xvjf backup.tar.bz2
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