Unix/Linux : How to archive and compress entire directory ?
While writing tutorial on how to untar a gzipped tar ball archive with Golang today, I was lost at how to actually create a tar ball archive and compress the tar ball. Maybe I'm just getting too old or could't remember the exact command after such a long time.
Therefore I better write a short tutorial on how to use the tar
command to archive and compress entire directory(and sub-directories).
The simplest command to create a tar ball :
> tar -zcvf tarball.tar.gz /directorytoarchive
Basically the command above is to :
-z Compress archive with gzip format
-c Create archive
-v Verbose mode ( more information)
-f Archive filename to be created
So the parameters should look like this :
> tar -zcvf <archivenametobecreated.tar.gz> <directory to be archived>
Just in case that you only want to create tar ball WITHOUT gzip.
> tar -cvf <archivenametobecreated.tar.gz> <directory to be archived>
// just minus the z
flag
Hope this short tutorial is useful for you.
See also : Unix/Linux : How to open tar.gz file ?
By Adam Ng
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