Ramin Hossaini (blog)

Linux: Tar and Zip

Compress:

• z: Compress using GZIP
• c: Create an archive (as opposed to the 'x' parameter to extract)
• v: Verbose mode
• f: Archive's filename

$ tar -zcvf filename.tar.gz /directory

Extract:

$ tar -zxvf filename.tar.gz

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