Create archives

To create a tar.gz archive from a given folder we can use the following command:

$ tar -zcvf <archive-name>.tar.gz <source-folder-name>

The command compresses the content of the source folder and creates an archive file named <archive-name>.tar.gz .

Example:

Extract archives

To extract a tar.gz archive let’s use the following command:

$ tar -xvzf <tar-archive-name>.tar.gz

The command extracts the archive to the folder <tar-archive-name>.

Example:

Note, that to preserve file permissions we need to add -p option. For example:

$ tar -pzcvf <archive-name>.tar.gz <source-folder-name>

and

$ tar -pxzvf <tar-archive-name>.tar.gz