How to compress and decompress files ?

Making TAR tar -cvf <dest-file>.tar <source-file>
Making GZIP of TAR file gzip <source-file>.tar
Extracting TAR file tar -xvf <source-file>.tar
Extracting GZIP file (.gz) to TAR file gunzip <source-file>.gz Example gunzip abc.gz gunzip abc.tar.gz
Extracting tar.gz file by single command tar -zxvf <source-file>.tar.gz