cli-tarHow do I create a tar.gz file using a shell script?

A tar.gz file is a compressed archive created using the tar command and gzip compression. To create a tar.gz file using a shell script, use the following code:

#!/bin/bash

# Create a tar.gz archive
tar -czvf archive.tar.gz /path/to/directory

This code will create a tar.gz archive of the directory at /path/to/directory.

The code consists of the following parts:

• #!/bin/bash - This is the shebang line which tells the shell which interpreter to use.
• tar -czvf archive.tar.gz /path/to/directory - This is the command which does the actual archiving. The -c flag creates an archive, -z compresses the archive with gzip, -v enables verbose output, and -f specifies the output file.

For more information, see the GNU tar manual.

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