Tar

tar usage, compression formats, and archive management.

May 19, 2026 • 10 min read

Tar Command in Linux: Create and Extract Archives with Examples

Create, extract, list, and compress tar archives in Linux. Examples for gzip, bzip2, xz, and zstd, plus excluding files, wildcard extraction, and stripping path components.

May 6, 2026 • 8 min read

How to Extract tar.xz Files in Linux

Extract .tar.xz and .txz archives in Linux with tar. This guide shows the basic command, verbose extraction, extracting to a directory, listing contents, and fixing common tar.xz errors.

Extracting tar.gz files in Linux with the tar command

Apr 7, 2026 • 5 min read

How to Extract (Unzip) tar.gz Files in Linux

Extract tar.gz and tgz archives with the tar command. Covers extracting to a directory, pulling specific files, wildcards, stdin piping, and listing archive contents.

Feb 23, 2026 • 4 min read

How to Create a tar.gz File in Linux

Step-by-step instructions for creating tar.gz files in Linux using the tar command. Covers single files, directories, wildcards, and excluding files.

Creating a tar.gz archive file in Linux using the tar command

Feb 5, 2026 • 5 min read

How to Extract (Unzip) Tar Bz2 File

Extract tar.bz2 and .tbz2 files in Linux with the tar command. Includes examples for unpacking to another directory, listing contents, extracting specific files, and reading archives from stdin.