Linux tar, gz and bz2

• t: List the contents of an archive
• v: Verbosely list files processed (display detailed information)
• z: Filter the archive through gzip so that we can open compressed (decompress) .gz tar file
• j: Filter archive through bzip2, use to decompress .bz2 files.
• f: File. Use the tar file argument as the name of the tar file
• x: Extract or restore
• c: Create

tar

tar -tvf file.tar : list the contents of the tar file 
tar -xvwf myfile.tar : extract all files from the tar 
tar xvf test.tar testfile1.bz2 : extract only the file called testfile1.bz2 from a tar archive
tar -cvwf txtfiles.tar *.txt : create a tar of all .txt files, name the tar file txtfiles.tar and put it in the current dir

bz2 ( bunzip2 )

tar -jtvf file.tar.bz2 : list the contents of the tar.bz2 file
tar -xvjpf filename.tar.bz2 : unzip a file compressed with .tar.bz2 
bzip2 filename.txt : compress a file with bunzip2 
bunzip2 filename.bz2 : unzip a file compressed only with bz2

gzip ( gunzip )

tar -ztvf file.tar.gz : list the contents of the tar.gz file
gzip filename.txt : compress a file using gunzip
gunzip filename.txt.gz : uncompress a file using gunzip

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