-c: compress archives
-x:decompress archives
-t:check archives
-z:whether it has the attribute of gzip at the same time?in other words,whether it needs gzip to compress or decompress. The general format is xx.tar.gz or xx. tgz
-j:whether it has the attribute of bzip2 at the same time?in other words,whether it needs bzip2 to compress or decompress. The general format is xx.tar.bz2
-f:use the archives name,the back of "-f" is the name directly
-v:show all the procedure
-c:compress the files to a specific folder
for example
compress:tar -jcv -f "filename.tar.bz2" "to be compressed files or folders"
check:tar -jtv -f "filenma.tar.bz2"
decompress:tar -jxv -f "filename.tar.bz2" -C "the path of decompress"