Create and Compress and Archive Archive a group of files: tar -czvf archive.tar.gz file1 file2 file3 Archive an entire directory: tar -czvf archive.tar.gz directory/ Extract a Compressed Archive tar -xzvf archive.tar.gz List the Contents of a Compressed Archive tar -tzvf archive.tar.gz Common tar Switches -c create a new archive -x extract files from an archive [...]
