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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