Archives under Linux

The most common archives under Linux and their command line are documented and presented here. Please provide a link to all references to Wikipedia.

Archive format: tar

Unpack:

tar xfv [ARCHIVNAME].tar

Packing:

tar cfv [ARCHIVNAME].tar [VERZEICHNIS1] [VERZEICHNIS2] [DATEI1] [DATEI2]

List:

tar tfv [ARCHIVNAME].tar

Archive format: gzip

Pack:

tar cfvz [ARCHIV].tar.gz [VERZEICHNIS1] [DATEI1]

Unpacking:

tar xfvz [ARCHIV].tar.gz

Archive format: bzip2

Pack:

tar cfvj [ARCHIV].tar.bz2 [VERZEICHNIS1] [DATEI1]

Unpacking:

tar xfvj [ARCHIV].tar.bz2

Archive format: zip

Packing:

zip [ARCHIV].zip [DATEI1] [DATEI2]

Packing a directory:

zip -r [ARCHIV].zip [VERZEICHNIS1] [VERZEICHNIS2]

Unpacking:

unzip [ARCHIV].zip

Unpack into directory and overwrite:

unzip -o [ARCHIV].zip -d dir/