Tar and Zip file compressed

Tar and Zip are two command useful to compress and extract files. They have lot of parameteres, here are the common parameters I usually use.

x = extract
c = compress
v = output verbose
z = compress/extract gzip (file tar.gz o .tgz)
f  = create folder

Tar

Decompress Tgz:

tar xvzf file.tgz directory_to_decompress
tar xvzf file.tar.gz directory_to_decompress

Compress tgz:

tar -zcvf archive_name.tar.gz directory_to_compress
tar -zcvf archive_name.tgz directory_to_compress

Zip Files

r = compress including subdirectories
d = extract in the directory

zip -r zip_file_name directory_to_compress
unzip zip_file_name.zip -d directory_to_decompress

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