How to Create Tar Gz File

Posted by linuxize on Jul 24, 2020 1:14 PM EDT
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This article describes how to create tar.gz files. In Linux operating systems, you can use the tar command to create tar archives. The command can also compress archives using a vast range of compression programs with gzip is the most popular algorithm.

A tar archive is a file that stores a collection of other files, including information about them, such as the ownership, permissions, and timestamp.

By convention, the name of a tar archive compressed with gzip should end with either .tar.gz or .tgz.

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