A tar/gzip Cheatsheet

Taking it from the Top (substituting your own directory for 'Hubbell'):

$ cd html/Hubbell
$ ls
403.html        Deny            aardvark.html   index.html
404.html        Dodo-bird.gif   aardvark1.jpg   index.shtml
Allow           Jabberwock2.jpg cats            myindex.shtml
Bin             Secrets         clock.shtml     tables.html
$ cd Bin
$ ls
textclock
$ cp ../../Bin/rand_image.tar.gz .
$ ls -al
total 20
drwxr-x--x  3 merimack  nobody   512 Jul  9 16:53 .
drwxr-x--x  6 merimack  nobody   512 Jul  9 15:34 ..
-rwx------  1 merimack  nobody  3092 Jul  9 16:53 rand_image.tar.gz
drwxr-xr-x  2 merimack  nobody   512 May 16  2002 textclock
$ gunzip rand_image.tar.gz
$ ls -al
total 52
drwxr-x--x  3 merimack  nobody    512 Jul  9 16:53 .
drwxr-x--x  6 merimack  nobody    512 Jul  9 15:34 ..
-rwx------  1 merimack  nobody  20480 Jul  9 16:53 rand_image.tar
drwxr-xr-x  2 merimack  nobody    512 May 16  2002 textclock
$ tar xvf rand_image.tar
rand_image
rand_image/README
rand_image/rand_image.pl
tar: ustar vol 1, 3 files, 20480 bytes read, 0 bytes written in 1 secs (20480 bytes/sec)
$ ls -al
total 56
drwxr-x--x  4 merimack  nobody    512 Jul  9 16:53 .
drwxr-x--x  6 merimack  nobody    512 Jul  9 15:34 ..
drwx------  2 merimack  nobody    512 May 15  2002 rand_image
-rwx------  1 merimack  nobody  20480 Jul  9 16:53 rand_image.tar
drwxr-xr-x  2 merimack  nobody    512 May 16  2002 textclock
$ rm rand_image.tar
$ ls -al
total 16
drwxr-x--x  4 merimack  nobody  512 Jul  9 16:54 .
drwxr-x--x  6 merimack  nobody  512 Jul  9 15:34 ..
drwx------  2 merimack  nobody  512 May 15  2002 rand_image
drwxr-xr-x  2 merimack  nobody  512 May 16  2002 textclock
$