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How to create tar a file in Linux

/home/vivek/data/ ,

then type:

 tar -czvf file.tar.gz /home/vivek/data/

To compress multiple directories and files, execute:

 tar -czvf file.tar.gz /home/vivek/data/ /home/vivek/pics/ /home/vivek/.accounting.db

One can use bzip2 compression instead of gzip by passing the -j option to the tar command:

tar -cjvf file.tar.bz2 /home/vivek/data/

Options

- c

- v

- f

- z

- j

  tar xvf  <.tar file>
  tar xzvf <.tar.gz file>
  tar xjvf <.tar.bz2 file>