Operating Systems & Environments

To compress one file or folder to a tar file:

tar -cvf xxx.tar file

To extract a tar file:

tar -xvf file.tar

To compress one file or folder to a tar.gz file:

tar -cvzf xxx.tar.gz file

To extract a tar.gz file:

tar -xvzf file.tar.gz

To compress one file or folder to a tar.bz2 file:

tar -cvjf xxx.tar.bz2 file

To extract a tar.bz2 file:

tar -xvjf file.tar.bz2

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