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30 June 2005

TAR.GZ

Many people keep on asking how to archive and compress a folder on a UNIX/Linux system.

Suppose you have a directory /usr/myDir and want to compress it to myDir.tar.gz
# tar –cvf myDir.tar /usr/myDir
# gzip myDir.tar

And to unzip and untar a ".tar.gz" file type
# tar -zxvf myDir.tar.gz

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