Compressing & estracting

Extracting

.tgz

tar zxvf file.tgz

gunzip -c file.tgz | tar xvf -

.tg.bz2

tar xvjf file.tg.bz2

.tar.xz

tar xf file.tar.xz

.xz

unxz file.xz

xz --decompress file.xz

.zip

unzip filezip

Compressing

.zip

zip -r filename-zip dirname

tar cvf file.tgz list of files and folders/