Basic file archiving and compression on linux

18 August 2022·1 min

linux

Archiving a file

$ tar -cvf filename.tar foldername/location  
	`-c` create  
	`-v` verbos output  
	`-f` set a filename/filelocation

Compressing a file
a. To compress a file:
```
$ gzip filename.tar    
```
b. Show the file:
```
$ ls  
```
Extracting a compressed file
To unzip and extract a file:

$ tar -xzvf filename.tar.gz