tar
tar is a Linux command in the Archives & Compression category, rated intermediate difficulty. Creates and extracts tar archives. The standard Unix archiving tool. The syntax is tar [options] [archive] [files]. Key options and parameters: archive, files — archive name, files to add. It returns archive file or extracted files. A practical example: tar -czf archive.tar.gz dir/ # Create gzipped archive tar -xzf archive.tar.gz # Extract gzipped archive tar -tf archive.tar # List contents tar -xjf archive.tar.bz2 # Extract bzip2 archive A close relative is gzip, which compresses files using Lempel-Ziv coding. Produces .gz files. A close relative is gunzip, which decompresses .gz files created by gzip. A close relative is zip, which creates compressed ZIP archives (cross-platform format). More about this category: Linux archive commands — tar, gzip, zip, unzip, and more. Compress and extract files and archives. Related Archives & Compression commands: gzip, gunzip, zip, unzip, xz, zcat, bunzip2, bzip2.