Answer Posted / pitambar mishra

tar command is used for create archiving so that data transfer
will de easier.

1. Create a tar archive :
tar -cvf tarfilename.tar path_of_file
2. Extract a tar archive :
tar -xvf tarfilename.tar
3. See the contents of a tar archive :
tar -tvf tarfilename.tar
4. Add a new file to an existing tar archive :
tar -rf tarfilename.tar newfile
5. Remove a file from an existing tar archive :
tar --delete -file=tarfilename.tar file_to_remove
6. Tar and zip at same time :
tar -cvzf
7. Tar and unzip at same time :
tar -xvzf

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