In Unix- Linux , the name of the tar command is short for tape archiving, the storing of entire file systems onto magnetic tape, which is one use for the command. However, a more common use for tar is to simply combine a few files into a single file, for easy storage and distribution.
The tar command used to rip a collection of files and directories into highly compressed archive file commonly called tarball or tar, gzip and bzip in Unix – Linux. The tar is most widely used command to create compressed archive files and that can be moved easily from one disk to another disk or machine to machine.
6. Uncompress tar.bz2 Archive File
To Uncompress highly compressed tar.bz2 file, just use the following command. The below example command will untar all the .jpg files from the archive file.
[root@cent ~]# tar -xvf emrepics.tar.bz2 emre/ emre/emrepics1.jpg emre/emrepics2.jpg emre/emrepics3.jpg emre/emrepics4.jpg
