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Creating and extracting archives To compress a file or directory to a tar archive, use: tar -cvf name_of_archive.tar name_of_file To compress a file as a tar.bz2 archive, use: tar -cvjf name_of_archive.tar.bz2 name_of_file To compress a file as a tar.xz archive (most compressed option), use: tar -cvJf name_of_archive.tar.xz name_of_file To extract the archive, simply run the same command, except replace the -c flag with -x .