cli-tarHow do I tar a directory using a terminal?
Using the terminal, you can tar (or compress) a directory and its contents in one step. To do this, you need to use the tar command.
For example, to tar the directory my_directory, you would use the following command:
tar -cvzf my_directory.tar.gz my_directoryThis command will create a compressed archive called my_directory.tar.gz containing the contents of my_directory.
The parts of the command are:
tar: the command to create an archive-cvzf: the flags used to specify the desired behavior of the command-c: create an archive-v: verbose - display the files being added to the archive-z: compress the archive using gzip-f: specify the filename of the archive
my_directory.tar.gz: the filename of the archivemy_directory: the directory to be archived
For more information, see the GNU tar manual.
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