Reminders for creating a tgz file

tarball.bash

## Disable mac ._ hidden files
$ export COPYFILE_DISABLE=true

$ cd directory-name

## Filename then path to folder
$ tar -cvzf filename.tgz folder-name

## Period will zip all files from current directory
$ tar -cvzf filename.tgz .

## Exclude folders or file types
$ tar -cvzf filename.tgz --exclude 'path/folder' --exclude '*.zip' .

## Real world example for WordPress - exclude large upload dir or potential backups
$ tar -czf wp-content.tgz --exclude 'wp-content/uploads' --exclude '*.zip' .

-c, --create
-v, --verbose
-z, --gzip, --ungzip
-f, --file=archive