The Complete Practical Docker Guide - Creating and Extracting Compressed Archive Using tar and gzip

This video tutorial demonstrates how to create, list, compress, and extract archives using the tar command. It covers creating an archive of files and folders in the home directory, listing its contents, compressing it with jzip, and using tar options to perform these tasks efficiently. The tutorial concludes with a preview of the next topic on sorting files.

What happens to the original archive file when you create a compressed version of it?

What is the significance of the option '-z' in the 'tar' command?

Describe the process of extracting contents from a compressed archive using 'tar'.