# Tar multiple folders

**CASE 1:****
Consider you have three folders as below:
➜  simulator ls
folder1C folder2C folder3C

Now if you want to zip all these :

```
tar -czvf simulator.tar.gz folder1C folder2C folder3C
``` 

To untar 

```
tar -xvf simulator.tar.gz folder1C folder2C folder3C
``` 


**CASE 2:****

Consider if you have list of directories obtained by grep. Then you can use below to create a tar file


```
ls | grep folder  | grep -v tar.gz | xargs tar -czvf simulator1.tar.gz
``` 
Above example excludes tar files already present in the folder and compresses other files with folder in name