How can I use tar and gzip to compress my files?
The commands tar and gzip can be used together to produce compressed file archives representing entire directory structures. These allow convenient packaging of entire directory contents. For example, to package a directory structure rooted at src/ use tar -czvf src.tar.gz src/ This archive can then be unpackaged using tar -xzvf src.tar.gz where the resulting directory/file structure is identical to what it was initially.
