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

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