Editing Tar (computing) (section)

=== Basic usage ===
Create an archive file {{code|archive.tar}} from the file {{code|README.txt}} and directory {{code|src}}:
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$ tar -cvf archive.tar README.txt src
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Extract contents for the {{code|archive.tar}} into the current directory:
<syntaxhighlight lang="console">
$ tar -xvf archive.tar
</syntaxhighlight>

Create an archive file {{code|archive.tar.gz}} from the file {{code|README.txt}} and directory {{code|src}} and compress it with [[gzip]] :
<syntaxhighlight lang="console">
$ tar -cavf archive.tar.gz README.txt src
</syntaxhighlight>

Extract contents for the {{code|archive.tar.gz}} into the current directory:
<syntaxhighlight lang="console">
$ tar -xvf archive.tar.gz
</syntaxhighlight>