Two common options used with all three of these operations are ‘-f’ and ‘-v’: to specify the name of the archive file, use ‘-f’ followed by the file name use the ‘-v’ (“verbose”) option to have tar output the names of files as they are processed. This tutorial shows how to use tar to create an archive, list the contents of an archive, and extract the files from an archive. Archives made with tar are normally called “tar files,” “tar archives,” or-since all the archived files are rolled into one-“tarballs.” We can use the tar tool to create, list, and extract files from archives.
This single file can be easily compressed for ease of transfer while the files in the archive retain the structure and permissions of the original files. Likewise, archives are used for software application packaging. Archive files are typically used for a transfer (locally or over the internet) or make a backup copy of a collection of files and directories which allow you to work with only one file (if compressed, it has a lower size than the sum of all files within it) instead of many. In a nutshell, an archive is a single file that contains a collection of other files and/or directories.
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