Using tar

Uncompressing files

tar xvf file.tar tar zxvf file.gz tar zxf file.tgz tar xjvf file.tar.bz2 gunzip -c file.tar.gz | tar xf - bunzip2 file.bz2

Options:

• f means file
• z means use zip/gzip
• v means verbose

Compressing files

tar cvf /tmp/backup.tar /home/username

• c means create file