Tradional Usage
  tar {A|c|d|r|t|u|x}[GnSkUWOmpsMBiajJzZhPlRvwo] [ARG...]

It is invigorating.

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[–] 9 points 4 hours ago (3 children)

It's pretty simple

tar
 e[x]tract
 [z]is
 [f]ile
 [v]erbosely
archive.tar.gz
--directory=archivedir

For creation it's pretty much the same but you need to specify [c]reate, e.g. tar czvf archive.tar.gz filestoarchive/ and for lis[t]ing it's - tar tf archive.tar.gz

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