cli-tarHow do I tar and compress a file in Unix?
Tarring and compressing a file in Unix is a two step process. First, the file is tarred using the tar
command. Then, the tar file is compressed using a compression utility, such as gzip
or bzip2
.
For example, to create a tar file of the file myfile.txt
and compress it with gzip
, use the following command:
tar -czvf myfile.tar.gz myfile.txt
The output of this command will be:
myfile.txt
The parts of this command are:
tar
: The command to create a tar file-czvf
: Options used to compress the file withgzip
and create a verbose outputmyfile.tar.gz
: The name of the tar file that will be createdmyfile.txt
: The file that will be tarred and compressed
For more information on using the tar
command, see the GNU Tar Manual.
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