Tar

"tar" stands for tape archive, which is used deal with tape drives backup.

• c: Create a new .tar archive file.
• v: Verbosely show the .tar file progress.
• f: Use archive file or device ARCHIVE.
• x: Extract files from an archive.
• z: Filter the archive through gzip.
• j: Filter the archive through bzip2.
• t: List the contents of an archive.

Compress

• Create .tar archive file
  • tar -cvf test.tar file1 file2
• Create .tar.gz archive compressed file
  • tar -cvzf test.tar.gz folder
• Create .tar.bz2 archive compressed file
  • tar -cvjf test.tar.bz2 folder
• Add files or directories to tar archive file
  • tar -rvf test.tar newFile
  • tar -rvf test.tar.gz newFile
  • tar -rvf test.tar.bz2 newFile

Decompress

• Untar tar archive file
  • tar -xvf test.tar
• Uncompress archive compressed file
  • tar -xvf test.tar.gz
  • tar -xvf test.tar.bz2
• Untar file(s) from tar File
  • tar -xvf test.tar file
  • tar -xvf test.tar file1 file2
  • tar -zxvf test.tar.gz file
  • tar -jxvf test.tar.bz2 file
• Extract group of files using wildcard
  • tar -xvf test.tar --wildcards '*.json'
  • tar -zxvf test.tar.gz --wildcards '*.json'
  • tar -jxvf test.tar.bz2 --wildcards '*.json'
• List content of tar archive file
  • tar -tvf test.tar
  • tar -tvf test.tar.gz
  • tar -tvf test.tar.bz2