Create archive

• -z: Compress archive using gzip program
• -c: Create archive
• -v: Verbose i.e display progress while creating archive
• -f: Archive File name

tar -zcvf archive.tar.gz /home/dir_to_archive

Untar archive

• -x: Extract files

tar -zxvf archive.tar.gz

List content of archive

tar -tvf file.tar