cli-tarHow do I gzip a tar file?
To gzip a tar file, you can use the tar command in combination with the gzip command. The syntax for this is:
tar -zcvf <output_file_name>.tar.gz <input_file_name>This will create a gzipped tar file named <output_file_name>.tar.gz containing the <input_file_name>.
Code explanation
tar: the tar command used to create a tar file-zcvf: the flags used to indicate gzip compression and create a tar archive<output_file_name>.tar.gz: the name of the output file<input_file_name>: the name of the input file
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