How to tar gzip a folder

Posted by Jamsi in Linux on August 31st, 2008 | 2 responses

Need to quickly tar and gzip an entire folder? Try the command below!

tar -cvzpf filename.tar.gz /path/to/folder

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2 Responses to “How to tar gzip a folder”

  1. Temp says:
    February 4, 2010 at 10:18 am

    Thanks!
    But how to ungzip now? :)

  2. Temp says:
    February 4, 2010 at 10:25 am

    O! I got it!

    To ungzip:
    tar -xvzpf filename.tar.gz

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