The document explains the tar command in Linux, which is used for archiving files into a single compressed archive for backup or distribution. It details the purpose of tar as a utility for collecting multiple files and mentions various compression methods like gzip, bzip2, and xz, alongside their corresponding uncompression commands. Overall, it serves as a guide on managing file archives in Linux.

1. Project Title
Archiving in Linux

2. What is tar command?
 The tar command stands for tape achieve, which is the most
commonly used tape drive backup command used by the Linux
system. It allows to quickly access a collection of files and
placed them into a highly compressed archive file commonly
called tar, gzip and bzip in Linux.
What is the purpose of tar?
tar is a computer software utility for collecting many files into
one archive file, for distribution or backup purposes. The name
is derived from (t)ape (ar)chive.

3. Compression file.txt;file1.txt;file2.txt by gzip,
bzip2 and xz

4. Compressed with gzip

5. Uncompressed with gunzip

6. Compressed with bzip2

7. Uncompressed with bunzip2

8. Compressed with xz

9. Uncompressed with unxz