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Essential Linux commands for file compression and extraction.

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Compress and Extract tar and tar.gz

Simple commands to archive and extract files in Linux.

1. Create tar archive

tar -cvf file.tar dir

2. Extract tar archive

tar -xvf file.tar

3. Create tar.gz archive

tar -zcvf file.tar.gz dir

4. Extract tar.gz archive

tar -zxvf file.tar.gz