10 quick tar command examples to create/extract archives in Linux

The tar (tape archive) command is a frequently used command on linux that allows you to store files into an archive.The commonly seen file extensions are .tar.gz and .tar.bz2 which is a tar archive further compressed using gzip or bzip algorithms respectively. In this tutorial we shall take a look at simple examples of using the tar command to do daily jobs of creating and extracting archives on linux desktops or servers...

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