Tar archive in Linux | Practical Demonstration of TAR Archiving files using TAR command Tar -cvf test.tar fileor dir name that you want to add Extracting an archive file Tar -xvf test.tar Updating an archive file with newly created files Tar -uvf test.tar test.txt List files from archive without extraction them Tar -tvf test.tar Extract single file from archive Tar -xvf test.tar test.txt