tar -czf archive.tar.gz dir/

Category: Archiving & Compression

tar -czf archive.tar.gz dir/

Create a gzip-compressed tarball from a directory

Creates a compressed archive (tarball) of a directory. -c=create, -z=gzip compress, -f=filename. The .tar.gz extension is standard.
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