tar

• Tape Archive
• Tar is a bundle of files, creating a tarball
• It's not compressed!

Tar

# TAR
tar -cvf "file.tar" "file-folder-1" "file-folder-2" "file-folder-3"
tar -cvf tarball.tar .
tar -cvf tarball.tar mytext.txt mydiary2.txt myfolder myfoldertwice
# c - create
# v - verbose (display progress)
# f - specify a file output name

# TAR and COMPRESS
tar -czvf "file.tar.gz" "file-folder"  # z - GZIP .tar.gz .tgz
tar -cjvf "file.tar.gz" "file-folder" # j - BZIP2 .tar.bz2 .tar.bz .tbz

# Exclude files
tar -czvf "file.tar.gz" "file-folder" --exclude="file-folder-excluded"
tar -czvf tarball.tar.gz /home/eu --exclude=*.mp4

Untar

# UNTAR
tar -xvf "file" # Extracts to current folder
tar -xvf "file" -C "destination" # Extract to a destination
tar -xvf tarball.tar -C /tmp

# UNTAR and UNCOMPRESS
tar -xzvf "file" # gzip
tar -xjvf "file" # bzip2
tar -xJxvf "file" # xz

Other

# Strip
tar -xzvf "file.tgz" --strip-components=1