Tar tricks

# Tar throw ssh
tar --rsh-command=/usr/bin/ssh -jcvf host:/tmp/archive.tar.bz2 dir-or-files

# Tar throw find
find . -type f -name "*.java" | xargs tar cvf myfile.tar

# Extract selected files to grep
for i in $(find . -name "f5*"); do tar -xOf $i f5/syslog-ng; done|grep flycat

# extract files from archive to stdout
tar -xOf <file>