Creating, listing and extracting a tar.gz archive

You can create a .tar.gz archive of a folder using

tar -cvfz archive.tar.gz folder

You can list contents of a tar file using

tar -ztvf archive.tar.gz

You can extract it using

tar -xvfz archive.tar.gz

You can extract it to a given folder using

tar -xvfz archive.tar.gz -C folder

Resources#

• https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/how-to-create-tar-gz-file-in-linux-using-command-line/