cli-tarHow do I use the command line to tar a directory?
The command line utility tar is used to create and manipulate tarball archives. To tar a directory, the following command can be used:
tar -cvf <archive_name>.tar <directory_name>This command will create a tarball archive named <archive_name>.tar from the directory <directory_name>.
The following parts are used in the command:
tar- the command line utility used to create and manipulate tarball archives-cvf- flags used to create a tarball archive<archive_name>.tar- the name of the tarball archive to create<directory_name>- the name of the directory to tar
The output of the command will be the list of files that were added to the tarball archive.
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