*nix commands for working with tar files

tarball.md

# Tarball and compress entire directory

📁 tar -zcvf archive-name.tar.gz directory-name

# Tarball and compress files individually

📄 tar -cvf file1 file2 dir3 | gzip > archive-name.tar.gz

# Extract contents of compressed tar file

📂 tar -zxvf archive-name.tar.gz

What options mean:

• z: Compress archive using gzip program
• c: Create archive
• v: Verbose i.e display progress while creating archive
• f: Archive file name
• x: Extract file