cli-tarHow do I create a gzip tar archive?

Creating a gzip tar archive is a straightforward process. The following example code creates a tar archive of the current directory, compresses it with gzip, and names it "myarchive.tar.gz":

tar -czf myarchive.tar.gz .

This command has several parts:

• tar: the tar command to create an archive
• -czf: the flags for creating a gzip compressed tar archive
• myarchive.tar.gz: the name of the resulting archive
• .: the directory to be archived

The output of this command will be something like this:

$ tar -czf myarchive.tar.gz .
$

For more information about creating tar archives with gzip, see the GNU tar manual.

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