Simple example of tar in linux , how to tar/untar

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A simple practical example to use tar:

To tar:
tar -cvf new_tar_file.tar file_or_directory/

To untar
tar -xvf tar_file.tar

To untar bz2
tar -jxvf tar_file.tar.bz2

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