Create/Compress/Archive , Extract/Uncompress/Unarchive Almost Any File in Linux (tar, tar.gz, tar.bz2, gz, bz, zip, 7z, rar, etc…)

Create/Compress/Archive , Extract/Uncompress/Unarchive Almost Any File in Linux (tar, tar.gz, tar.bz2, gz, bz, zip, 7z, rar, etc…)

Archiving and compression

Suffixe Archive	Create/Compress/Archive	Extract/Uncompress/Unarchive
.tar	tar cvf filename.tar /dir	tar xvf filename.tar
.tar.gz	tar czvf filename.tar.gz /dir	tar xzvf filename.tar.gz
.tgz	tar cvzf filename.tgz /dir	tar xvzf filename.tgz
.tar.bz	tar cjvf filename.tar.bz /dir	tar xjvf filename.tar.bz
.tbz	tar cjvf filename.tbz /dir	tar xjvf filename.tbz
.tar.bz2	tar cjvf filename.tar.bz2 /dir	tar xjvf filename.tar.bz2
.tar.xz	tar cvf - filenames	lzma > filename.tar.xz
.xz	xz filename	xz -d -v filename.tar.xz
.gz	gzip filename	gunzip filename.gz
.gz2	You probably mean .bz2	You probably mean .bz2
.bz	bzip filename	bunzip filename.bz
.bz2	bzip2 filename	bunzip2 filename.bz2
.xz	lzma filename	unlzma filename.xz
.zip	zip -r filename.zip /dir	unzip filename.zip
.7z	7z a -t7z filename.7z /dir	7z x filename.7z
.rar	rar a filename.rar /dir	unrar x filename.rar