Top Linux Commands for Archieved (Tar Files)

# Create tar named archive.tar containing directory.
tar cf archive.tar directory
# Extract the contents from archive.tar.
tar xf archive.tar
# Create a gzip compressed tar file name archive.tar.gz.
tar czf archive.tar.gz directory
# Extract a gzip compressed tar file.
tar xzf archive.tar.gz
# Create a tar file with bzip2 compression
tar cjf archive.tar.bz2 directory
# Extract a bzip2 compressed tar file.
tar xjf archive.tar.bz2