cli-tarHow do I use the command line to create a tar.gz file?
To create a tar.gz file using the command line, the following command can be used:
tar -czvf <file_name>.tar.gz <file_name>
The parts of the command are as follows:
tar
: The command used to create a tar file-czvf
: Options used to create a tar file in gzip format with verbose output<file_name>.tar.gz
: The name of the output tar file<file_name>
: The name of the file to be compressed
The output of the command will be the newly created tar.gz file.
For more information, see the GNU Tar Manual.
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