cli-tarHow do I gzip a tar file in Linux?

In Linux, you can gzip a tar file by using the gzip command. This command will compress the tar file into a gzip file, which is usually much smaller in size.

$ tar -cvf my_files.tar my_files/
$ gzip my_files.tar

The above example code creates a tar file called my_files.tar from the folder my_files/ and compresses it into a gzip file.

The tar command has the following parts:

• -c: creates a tar file
• -v: verbose mode, prints the name of each file it archives
• -f: specifies the filename of the tar file

The gzip command has the following parts:

• my_files.tar: the name of the tar file to be compressed

For more information about the tar and gzip commands, please refer to the following links:

• tar command
• gzip command

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