cli-tarHow do I use tar gzip to compress files at a specific level?
tar
is a command line tool used to create, modify, and extract archives. gzip
is a compression algorithm used to compress files. To use tar
and gzip
to compress files at a specific level, you can use the following command:
tar -zcvf archive-name.tar.gz -C /path/to/files level
tar
: command to create and modify archives-z
: flag to compress the archive using gzip-c
: flag to create an archive-v
: flag to enable verbose output-f
: flag to specify the name of the archive-C
: flag to specify the directory to archivelevel
: the compression level (1-9)
This command will create an archive named archive-name.tar.gz
in the current directory, and compress the files in the /path/to/files
directory at the specified compression level.
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