A Few of my Favourite Zip Commands

Just a few examples for reference:

To compress

 tar -jcvf archive_name.tar.bz2 folder_to_compress

 zip -r archive_name.zip folder_to_compress

To extract

 tar -jxvf archive_name.tar.bz2

or

 tar -xvf file.tar

or

 tar -xvf file.tar --strip-components=1 // to remove a container folder

or

 bzip2 -d [filename]

 gzip -d file.gz

 unzip file.zip -d destination_folder