cli-tarHow do I use tar and gzip in Linux?
Tar and gzip are two of the most popular archiving and compression utilities for Linux.
tar -cvzf archive.tar.gz <files>
This command will create an archive file called archive.tar.gz, containing all the files listed in <files>.
tar: creates an archive file-c: creates a new archive-v: verbose output-z: compress the archive with gzip-f: specifies the name of the archive
The archive can be extracted with:
tar -xvzf archive.tar.gz
-x: extract files from the archive
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