tar Cheat Sheet

-c (--create): Create a new archive and write the named files to it
-t (--list): List the contents of an archive
-x (--extract | --get): Extract files from an archive
-f ARCHIVE (--file=ARCHIVE): Use the file ARCHIVE as the archive to perform operations on
-z (--gzip | --gunzip | --ungzip): Read or write archives through ‘gzip’ compression
-I (--bzip2): Read or write archives through ‘bzip2′ compression
-v (--verbose): Display more info about the running operation
tar -czvf MyArchive Source_file: Create a tar file named MyArchive and gzip it, from the Source_file with verbose information
tar -xzvf MyArchive: Extract the file created above with verbose information