Simple usage of the tar command

For files ending with. Z: Uncompress all. Z

For files ending with tar.bz2: Tar-xzf all.tar. Z

For. Zip:

The zip all.zip *. jpg command is used to compress all .jpg files into a zip package.

The unzip all.zip command is used to extract all files in all.zip.

Compression: Tar cvfz target file source file 1 [source file 2...]
Example: tar cvfz m.tar.gz hello. cpp hello. h// M.tar.gz is the target file, and hello. cpp and hello. h are the source files.
Decompress: Tar xvfz target file
Example: tar xvfz m.tar.gz// Decompress the compressed package file m.tar.gz in the current directory