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Prog · #1 (**permalink**) 06-18-2007, 11:12 PM

How do I tar an entire directory?

**Jordan** · #2 (**permalink**) 06-19-2007, 11:55 PM

Here is the command:

tar -cvf mytarfile.tar mydir/

Prog · #3 (**permalink**) 06-20-2007, 12:12 AM

Ok, I've got that - now how do I add gzip compression to the tar so I don't have to manually do a gzip command?

**Jordan** · #4 (**permalink**) 07-20-2007, 06:37 PM

Just add a z to the list:

tar -zcvf mytarfile.tar.gz mydir/

and to untar:
tar -zxvf mytarfile.tar.gz

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