# 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`