How to create .tar.gz Archive


On the Linux system is very easy to compress the whole folder. We will use tar command with right arguments.



Create new archive - compress

On the Linux system is very easy to compress the whole folder. We will use tar command with four arguments:

-z => compress archive with gzip

-c => create an archive

-v => verbose, which means to display progress

-f => filename of the archive

Example:

tar -zcvf name_of_archive.tar.gz /folder/path/to/dempress

Decompress our new archive

We created tar.gz archive now. Next step is to uncompress it. We can do this with the use of:

tar -zxvf name_of_archive.tar.gz /folder/to/decompress

where -x means => extract files




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