cli-tarHow can I use a single command to tar and gzip a file?
The command tar -czf <name_of_archive>.tar.gz <name_of_file_or_directory>
can be used to tar and gzip a file or directory. This command will create a tarball (a single file) containing the file or directory and its contents.
For example, the following command will create an archive called example.tar.gz
containing the file example.txt
:
tar -czf example.tar.gz example.txt
The command will produce no output.
The parts of the command are as follows:
tar
: The tar command is used to create, modify, and extract files from archives.-czf
: These are flags that tell tar to create an archive (-c
), compress it using gzip (-z
), and use the specified file name for the archive (-f
).example.tar.gz
: This is the name of the archive that will be created.example.txt
: This is the name of the file or directory that will be compressed and added to the archive.
For more information, see the tar man page or this tutorial.
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