Tar
Clean a tar-bombed directory
::
tar -tf <file.tar.gz> | xargs rm -r
Remove VCS junk
::
tar --exclude-vcs -cf src.tar src/
Creating a gzipped tarball
::
# Zip a directory
tar czfv tobemade.tar.gz tobezipped/
Extracting tarballs
::
# tar.gz
tar zxvf [file]
# tar.bz2
tar jxvf [file]