Uso básico tar con gzip/bzip2 [bash]

Usos comunes:

tar -czvf archive.tar.gz foo
       # Create archive.tar.gz compressing file foo (using gzip)

tar -cjvf archive.tar.bz2 foo
       # Using bzip2

tar -xzvf archive.tar.gz -C foo

       # Extract files from archive.tar.gz to foo directory


Ejemplos extraídos del man de tar:

       tar -cf archive.tar foo bar
              # Create archive.tar from files foo and bar.

       tar -tvf archive.tar
              # List all files in archive.tar verbosely.

       tar -xf archive.tar
              # Extract all files from archive.tar.