cli-tarHow do I use shell tiki tar to compress files?
Shell tiki tar is a command line utility that can be used to compress and archive files. To use it, the tar
command must be followed by the -czvf
option and the name of the archive. The -c
option tells tar to create an archive, the -z
option tells tar to compress the archive with gzip, the -v
option tells tar to display progress information, and the -f
option tells tar to use the following argument as the archive filename.
For example, to compress all the files in the current directory into an archive named myfiles.tar.gz
, the following command can be used:
tar -czvf myfiles.tar.gz *
The command above will create a compressed archive named myfiles.tar.gz
that contains all the files in the current directory.
The following list explains each option used in the command above:
-c
: tells tar to create an archive-z
: tells tar to compress the archive with gzip-v
: tells tar to display progress information-f
: tells tar to use the following argument as the archive filename
For more information about using tar, please refer to the following links:
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