The most common compressed archive file format in Linux is the tar.gz format. Tar file is an archive file format. Tar.gz is a compressed tar file.

How to create a compressed tar.gz file from a folder or file in Linux?

In order to create a compressed tar.gz archive from a folder/file we need to run the following tar command:

tar -czf new-tar-file-name.tar.gz file-or-folder-to-archive

Here is the command explanation:

  • tar – the tar command.
  • c – create new archive.
  • z – compress the archive using gzip.
  • f – use archive file.
  • new-tar-file-name.tar.gz – the name of the tar.gz to create.
  • file-or-folder-to-archive – the name of the folder we want to archive.

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