Zip Or Compress Directory On Linux

December 12, 2017

linux
ubuntu

tar -czvf [FILENAME].tar.gz [DIRECTORY]

The following tar command will:

-c: create a new archive
-z: gzip
-f: use archive file
-v: verbose - list all files archived (optional)

tar -czvf [FILENAME].tar.gz [DIRECTORY]

The following extra parameters are useful:

-p: preserve permission
--exclude: exclude files

Compress directory with exclude file extension.

tar -czvf [FILENAME].tar.gz [DIRECTORY] --exclude "*.pyc"

Compress directory with exclude sub directory.

tar -czvf [FILENAME].tar.gz [DIRECTORY] --exclude "tmp"

Compress directory with multiple excludes.

tar -czvf [FILENAME].tar.gz [DIRECTORY] --exclude "*.pyc" --exclude "tmp"

Extract .tar.gz.

tar -zxf [FILENAME].tar.gz

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