How to create tar.gz file in Linux using command line

by | May 22, 2020 | SSH/Batch Scripts | 0 comments

The procedure to create a tar.gz file on Linux is as follows:

  1. Open the terminal application in Linux
  2. Run tar command to create an archived named file.tar.gz for given directory name by running: tar -czvf file.tar.gz directory
  3. Verify tar.gz file using the ls command and tar command
tar -czvf file.tar.gz directory