tar -xzvf archive.tar.gz
tar -czvf projects.tar.gz projects/
# compress
tar czvf < archive_name >.tar.gz < path >
# extract
tar xzvf < archive_name >.tar.gz
tar xzvf < archive_name >.tar.gz -C /home/usera/tmp
tar -xvzf community_images.tar.gz
tar -xzf archive-name.tar.gz
cd archive-name
./configure
make
sudo make install