In this tutorial you will learn how to zip & unzip a file, and you will be able to tar & untar a directory filled with your files.

Open your terminal and let's get started.

Step 1: Zip & Unzip a file

 ~$ gzip <file name>

 Notice: if the file name has spaces add the backslash like this <file\ name>

 you will get a .gz file 

 To unzip it

 ~$ gunzip <file\ name.gz> 

Step 2: Tar & Untar a directory

1. GO to the directory you want to Tar

~$ cd <path/to/directory>

2. write the following command to tar

~$ tar cvf <directory_name.tar> <files names you want to add to the directory_name.tar with spaces between them>

To Untar the direcotry

~$ tar xvf <directory_name.tar>

That's it.

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