Tar is Zip's older more powerful, cooler cousin. -Confusous
Basic Use
tar czvf /path/to/compressedFile.tar.gz /path/to/target/[dir|file]*
- Tar supports regex matches for target directory or files.
- Args. Dash Optional
- c|x - Compress or Extract
- z|b| - GZip vs BZip
- v - Verbose. Totally Optional
- f - File output I think? It's required and needs to go at the end.