tar and gzip

Compress: (with gzip)

$ tar czf NAME.tar.gz COMPRESS_PATH

Decompress: (with gzip)

$ tar xzf COMPRESSED_FILE OUTPUT_DIR

Add the v option to see what it’s doing (can be slower as there’s an extra step to output to stdout)

But a tar is just a archiver, it puts all of the files into one .tar archive. And on the web, browsers and HTTP servers are more friendly to just .gz which you do with:

$ gzip -k FILE

-k preserves the original file

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