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).
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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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