cli-tarHow do I use gzip to compress a tar file on Windows?
Using gzip to compress a tar file on Windows is possible with the help of 7-Zip. The following example code demonstrates how to compress a tar file named example.tar
into a gzip file named example.tar.gz
:
7z a -tgzip example.tar.gz example.tar
The above command will compress example.tar
into example.tar.gz
using gzip compression.
The parts of the command are as follows:
7z
: The 7-Zip command line executablea
: The “add” command, which adds files to an archive-tgzip
: The “use gzip” command, which tells 7-Zip to use gzip compressionexample.tar.gz
: The name of the gzip archive to be createdexample.tar
: The name of the tar file to be compressed
For more information on using 7-Zip from the command line, see the 7-Zip Command Line Documentation.
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