Compress and extract a directory in UNIX

To compress a directory, use:
tar -zcvf <directory_name>.tar.gz <directory-name>

To extract the content of the directory:

tar -zxvf <directory_name>.tar.gz -C /tgt/dir/


Arguments meaning:
-z: Compress archive using gzip program
-c: Create archive
-v: Verbose i.e display progress while creating archive
-f: Archive File name

-x: Extract Files


Until next post,
Sathish Manthani