cli-tarHow do I use the command line to tar and zip a file?
To tar and zip a file using the command line, use the tar
command followed by the gzip
command. This will create a .tar.gz
file.
The syntax for this command is:
tar -cvzf <name_of_file>.tar.gz <name_of_file>
For example, to tar and zip a file called example.txt
, the command would be:
tar -cvzf example.tar.gz example.txt
The output of this command should be:
example.txt
The parts of the command are as follows:
tar
: the command to create an archive-cvzf
: the flags used to indicate the type of archive to create and the options to use<name_of_file>.tar.gz
: the name of the archive file to create<name_of_file>
: the name of the file to be archived
For more information on the tar
command, see the following links:
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