tar gzip example

tar czvf mydirectory.tgz mydirectory

1. c – create a new archive.
2. z – gzip’d the archive.
3. v – work verbosely, showing me the name of each file you add. This is optional.
4. f – specifies that you want to use the following filename (mydirectory.tgz) as the name of the archive.

http://www.devdaily.com/blog/post/linux-unix/how-work-files-tar-gzip-tgz

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