Compress files and directories using tar.gz on linux

Compressed Archive Syntax:

tar -zcvf archive_name.tar.gz directory_or_file_to_compress

DeCompress (Extract) Archive Syntax:

tar -zxvf archive_name.tar.gz

see also

• How to create and extract zip, tar, tar.gz and tar.bz2 files in Linux

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