Archiving utility. Often combined with a compression method, such as gzip or bzip. - Create an archive from files: tar cf target.tar file1 file2 file3 - Create a gzipped archive: tar czf target.tar.gz file1 file2 file3 - Extract an archive in a target folder: tar xf source.tar -C folder - Extract a gzipped archive in the current directory: tar xzf source.tar.gz - Extract a bzipped archive in the current directory: tar xjf source.tar.bz2 - Create a compressed archive, using archive suffix to determine the compression program: tar caf target.tar.xz file1 file2 file3 - List the contents of a tar file: tar tvf source.tar - Extract files matching a pattern: tar xf source.tar --wildcards "*.html"