Tar Cheatsheet

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

List content of tar file

tar -tvf archive.tar