How To Compress A Tar Ball Directory With A Linux Command

to uncompress a .tar.gz you use tar zxvf filename.tar.gz

Which of the following commands would you use to unpack a tar ball called file.tar.gz? ball xfv file.tar.gz unball zfd file.tar.gz tar zxf file.tar.gz untar zvf file.tar.gz

Usage

* To pack tar files, use the following commands:
- for an uncompressed tar file:



- to pack and compress (one step at a time):



- to pack and compress all at once:



- to create a tar from a directory and its subdirectories:



* To unpack tar files, use the following commands:
- for an uncompressed tar file:



- to decompress and unpack one step at a time:



- to decompress and unpack all at once:



* To list the contents of a tar file, use the following command:



To use bzip2 instead of gzip, simply replace the commands above with bzip2 where gzip is used and bunzip2 where gunzip is used.

I you want to pack a whole directory along with its files and subdirectories, try running this command at the shell to see if it works, not sure if this is the correct command though: