tar

Archiving utility. Often combined with a compression method, such as gzip or bzip2. More information: https://www.gnu.org/software/tar.

tar cf path/to/target.tar path/to/file1 path/to/file2 ...

tar czf path/to/target.tar.gz path/to/file1 path/to/file2 ...

tar czf path/to/target.tar.gz --directory=path/to/directory .

tar xvf path/to/source.tar[.gz|.bz2|.xz]

tar xf path/to/source.tar[.gz|.bz2|.xz] --directory=path/to/directory

tar caf path/to/target.tar.xz path/to/file1 path/to/file2 ...

tar tvf path/to/source.tar

tar xf path/to/source.tar --wildcards "*.html"