How to use TAR command in Ubuntu and Centos?

Command to archive files in Linux

What is Archive?

Archive files are used to collect multiple data files together into a single file for easier portability and storage, or simply to compress files to use less storage space.

There are 2 commands to archive files in Linux

1. ZIP
2. TAR

how to create a ZIP file

chirag@chirag-MacBookAir:~$ zip -r filename.zip dir1
chirag@chirag-MacBookAir:~$ zip -r filename.zip file1 file2 file3

How to extract the ZIP file

chirag@chirag-MacBookAir:~$ unzip filename.zip

How to create a ZIP file while excluding a particular file.

chirag@chirag-MacBookAir:~$ zip filename.zip -x "exclude file name"

How to extract zip file while excluding particular files.

chirag@chirag-MacBookAir:~$ unzip filename.zip -x "exclude filename"
chirag@chirag-MacBookAir:~$ zip -r zipped.zip directory -x "*.svn*"
chirag@chirag-MacBookAir:~$ unzip -l chirag.zip -x "exclude filename"

Tar Commands for Archive

How to extract tar file  
  chirag@chirag-MacBookAir:~$  tar -ztvf config.tar.gz
chirag@chirag-MacBookAir:~$  tar -zxvf config.tar.gz etc/default/sysstat
chirag@chirag-MacBookAir:~$  tar -xvf {tarball.tar} {path/to/file}

Example – tar -xvf tarfile.tar /home/viking

How to Extract Single file from tar file

chirag@chirag-MacBookAir:~$ tar --extract --file={tarball.tar} {file}

Or

chirag@chirag-MacBookAir:~$ tar --extract --file={tarball.tar} {file}

Or

chirag@chirag-MacBookAir:~$ tar --extract --file=cbz.tar css

Important Links :-

Know more About  TAR and ZIP format

• TAR 
• ZIP
• Tar Documentation