cli-tarHow do I use tar to compress a directory in Unix?
To use tar to compress a directory in Unix, you can use the following command:
tar -zcvf <filename>.tar.gz <directory>
This will create a tarball file called <filename>.tar.gz
containing the contents of the directory <directory>
. The flags -zcvf
indicate that the tarball should be compressed using gzip, created (-c
), verbosely listed (-v
), and the output file should be <filename>.tar.gz
(-f
).
Code explanation
tar
: the command to create a tar archive-zcvf
: flags indicating that the tarball should be compressed using gzip, created, verbosely listed, and the output file should be<filename>.tar.gz
<filename>.tar.gz
: the output file name<directory>
: the directory to be compressed
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