cli-tarHow do I use the gzip tar command in Linux?
The gzip tar
command is used to create a compressed archive file in Linux. It combines the gzip
and tar
commands to compress and combine multiple files into one archive file.
Example
tar -czf archive.tar.gz file1 file2 file3
This command will combine file1
, file2
, and file3
into a single archive.tar.gz
file.
Parts of the command:
tar
: the tar command is used to create an archive-czf
: the-c
flag creates an archive, the-z
flag compresses the archive usinggzip
, and the-f
flag specifies the filename of the archivearchive.tar.gz
: the name of the archive that will be createdfile1 file2 file3
: the files to be combined into the archive
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