cli-tarHow do I use gzip to tar files in Windows?
Using gzip to tar files in Windows is a simple process. Here's an example of how to do it:
$ tar -cvzf myfiles.tar.gz myfiles/
This command will create a new file called myfiles.tar.gz
containing all the files and folders in the myfiles
directory.
Code explanation
tar
- The command to create an archive-cvzf
- Flags to compress the archive with gzipmyfiles.tar.gz
- The name of the new archive filemyfiles/
- The directory to be archived
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