Pack it up, dude

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Category: Newbies in Command

Okay, I just realized that giving instructions on how to unpack archives is neat - but about creating tar.gz archives?

Easy: Just use

tar -cvpzf <output filename> <directory>
this means:
-c = create new archive
-v = be verbose
-p = preserver permissions
-z = compress using gzip
-f = filename to create for the new archive

for the directory dont to "directory/*" just to "directory" with no slash

filenames should end in ".tar.gz" as they are tarr'ed then zipped