cli-tarHow do I gzip a tar file?
To gzip a tar file, you can use the following command:
tar -zcvf <output_file.tar.gz> <input_file.tar>This command will create a gzipped tar file called output_file.tar.gz based on the input_file.tar. The flags used are:
zfor gzip compressioncto create a new archivevfor verbose outputfto specify the output file
The output of the command will look like this:
input_file.tar
input_file.tar
input_file.tar
...To uncompress the tar file, you can use the command:
tar -zxvf <input_file.tar.gz>This will extract the files from the gzipped tar file. The flags used are:
zfor gzip decompressionxto extract files from the archivevfor verbose outputfto specify the input file
The output of the command will look like this:
input_file.tar
input_file.tar
input_file.tar
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