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Command Line Basics: Create And Extract Tarballs

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Web Webster
Web Webster
Nov 17, 2011

“To create a tarball, it’s good to have all of the files you
want in the package to be contained in a directory. Although this
is not necessary, it’s convenient when you then go to extract the
file later. That way the archive will be extracted to its own
directory rather than dumping its contents into the current
directory.

You can then create a tarball from the command line like
this:

tar -cvzf archive.tar.gz directory_to_archive


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Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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