💻 Tar

• .tar.gz

  • tar -xvzf file.tar.gz

• .tar.xz

  • tar -xvf file.tar.xz

• .tar.bz2

  • tar -xjvf file.tar.bz2

• .tar.gz

  • tar -czvf file.tar.gz directory_or_file

• .tar.xz

  • tar -cvf file.tar.xz directory_or_file

• .tar.bz2

  • tar -cjvf file.tar.gz directory_or_file

• GNU Tar

• Red Hat: Taming the tar command

• Wikipedia: Tarball (oil)

• Wikipedia: Tarball (Computing)