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Create

Without compress (.tar)

tar -cvf abc.tar dir1 file1 file2 other ...
c: create
v: verbose
f: format

Compress with GZip (.tar.gz)

tar -cvzf abc.tar.gz dir1 file1 file2 other ...
c: create
v: verbose
z: zip
f: format

Extract

Without compress (.tar)

tar -xvf abc.tar
tar -xvf abc.tar folder_in_tar file_in_tar ...
x: extract

Compressed with GZip (.tar.gz)

tar -xvzf abc.tar
tar -xvzf abc.tar folder_in_tar file_in_tar
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