Useful Tar Commands

List the contents of tar file
>tar -tvf file.tar

List the contents of a tar.gz file
>tar -ztvf file.tar.gz

tar all .cc and .h files into a tar file named foo.tgz use
>tar cvzf foo.tgz *.cc *.h

extract only one (or several) files
>tar xvzf foo.tgz

extract only one (or several) files
>tar xvzf foo.tgz anagram.cc

extract bz2 tar ball
>tar -jxvf filename.tar.bz2

extract bz2 
>bunzip filename.bz2