Tar

tar is a command line utility that archives files in linux.

syntax

> tar tar-quive.tar

Untar

> tar -zxvf tar-quive.tar.gz

Examples

> tar -xvvf foo.tar
 extract foo.tar

> tar -xvvzf foo.tar.gz
 extract gzipped foo.tar.gz

> tar -cvvf foo.tar foo/
 tar contents of folder foo in foo.tar

External References

• tar man page