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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