cli-tarHow do I use the Unix tar command to compress a folder?
The Unix tar command is used to compress a folder by creating a tarball (a tar archive file). To use the tar command, open the command line and type:
tar -cvf <filename>.tar <foldername>This command will create a tar archive file named
The parts of the command are as follows:
tar- the command to create an archive-cvf- the flags used to create the archive-c- create a new archive-v- verbose output (optional)-f- specify the filename of the archive
<filename>.tar- the name of the archive to be created<foldername>- the name of the folder to be compressed
To extract the contents of the archive, use the following command:
tar -xvf <filename>.tarThis command will extract the contents of the
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