TAR

From CLFS-HINTS

Tar is an archiving program that groups files into a single file, and then is usually then compressed with bzip2 or gzip.

• Extracting to Current Directory
• Extracting to Another Destination
• Creating tar from Current Folder
• Compressing a tar to a Tared .bz2 File
• Compressing a tar to a Tared .gz File