How to pack and unpack a .tar.gz archive 📦

How to pack a .tar.gz archive 📥

Pack a directory:

tar cfvz [name of archive].tar.gz [name of directory] tar cfvz images.tar.gz images Copy

Pack multiple files:

tar cfvz [name of archive].tar.gz [file1] [file2] ... tar cfvz images.tar.gz image1.png image2.png ... Copy

What does cfvz mean?

• c / create
• f / file
• v / verbose - Lists all files that are being packed (optional)
• z / compress

Unpack a .tar.gz archive 📤

Unpack archive into current directory

tar xvf [name of archive].tar.gz tar xvf archive.tar.gz Copy

Unpack archive into another directory

tar xvf [name of archive].tar.gz -C [name of directory] tar xvf archive.tar.gz -C directory/ Copy

What does xvf mean?

• x / extract
• v / verbose - Lists all files that are being packed (optional)
• f / file