Create archive with gz-compression
tar cvzf [archive-file] [file or directory to be archived]Create archive with bzip2-compression
tar cvjf [archive-file] [file or directory to be archived]Extract archive with gz-compression
tar xvzf [archive-file] [file or directory to be archived]Extract archive with bzip2-compression
tar xvjf [archive-file] [file or directory to be archived]