Tar
tar is a tool for file compression on Linux, you can compress files into other format , like gzip (.tar.gz), bzip2 (.tar.bz2) and so on.
Compress Format
tar [cvfz] [tar ball file] [the files or directory are compressed in]
c Create a tar ball
f Specify tar ball file name
v Show the processing verbose.
z Compress to gzip format.
Example
tar zcvf etc.tar.gz /etc/*
Decompress Format
tar [-xvfz] [tar ball file] [target directory for decompressing out]
x Decompress tar ball
f Specify tar ball file name
v Show the processing verbose.
z Decompress for gzip format.(.gz)
Example
tar zxvf etc.tar.gz /home/
