cli-tarHow do I tar and gzip a file on a Mac?
To tar and gzip a file on a Mac, you can use the tar
command. The syntax for using tar
to create an archive and compress it in one step is as follows:
tar -czvf archive-name.tar.gz /path/to/directory-or-file
The flags used are:
-c
: create an archive-z
: compress the archive with gzip-v
: show progress in the terminal while creating the archive-f
: allows you to specify the filename of the archive
The output should look something like this:
a directory-or-file
a directory-or-file/file1
a directory-or-file/file2
Once the command is complete, you will have a .tar.gz
archive with the specified name in the current working directory.
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