The tar program is used to collect many files into one larger file usually for archival purposes. The gzip program is used to compress large files. Creating a compressed tar file: tar cvf archive.tar some_directory/ gzip -9 archive.tar The first command creates the file archive.tar which contains a copy of all files and subdirectories in […]
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Linux/Unix 101: Using “tar” And “gzip” To Create and Extract Files From Archives
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