3rd February 2013 - 3 minutes read time
The tar command can be used to compress or extract one or more files in Linux. A tar file isn't actually a compressed format, instead it is a collection of files within a single file. The tar command can take one or more files, convert them into a tar file and then compress it into a gzip file format. The file created will have the extension tar.gz.
There are a large number of flags that can be used but the main ones for everyday use are.
