The basics:
- x – extract files
- c – compress files
- t – list files
- v – verbose (list files as it processes them)
- j – use bz2 compression
- z – use gz compression
- f – read or write files to disk
Examples:
Uncompress a tar.gz file: tar zxf tarball.tar.gz
Uncompress a tar.bz2 file: tar jxf tarball.tar.bz2
Create a tar.gz file: tar zcvf tarball.tar.gz mydir/*
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