How to decompress .tar files in linux-linux operation and maintenance

How to decompress .tar files in Linux

1. Pack and compress

tar -cvf etc.tar /app/etc #package
 tar -zcvf pack.tar.gz pack/ #Pack and compress into a compressed package in .gz format
 tar -jcvf pack.tar.bz2 pack/ #Pack and compress into a compressed package in .bz2 format
 tar -Jcvf pack.tar.xz pack/ #Pack and compress into a compressed package in .xz format

2. Unpack and decompress

 tar -xvf pack.tar # unpack pack.tar file
 tar -zxvf pack.tar.gz /pack #Unpack and decompress the compressed package in .gz format to the pack folder
 tar -jxvf pack.tar.bz2 /pack #Unpack and decompress the compressed package in .bz2 format to the pack folder
 tar -Jxvf pack.tar.xz /pack #Unpack and decompress the compressed package in .xz format to the pack folder

Key explanation: the tar tool itself does not have the function of compression, and it can only be realized by combining the compression tool Better compression.

-j: bzip2

-z: gzip

-J: xz

-c: Packaging

-x: Unpacking

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