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.
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