how tar is used in linux

Usage:
tar <operation> [options]

Common Operations:
-A, --catenate, --concatenate append tar files to an archive
-c, --create create a new archive
-r, --append append files to the end of an archive
-x, --extract, --get extract files from an archive

Common Options:
-f, --file [HOSTNAME:]F use archive file or device F
(default "-", meaning stdin/stdout)
-j, --bzip2 filter archive through bzip2,
use to decompress .bz2 files
-p, --preserve-permissions extract all protection information
-v, --verbose verbosely list files processed
-z, --gzip, --ungzip filter the archive through gzip,
use to decompress .gz files