Join the nixCraft community via RSS Feed, Email Newsletter or follow on Twitter.In this tutorial we will learn to create password protected and encrypted zip file using the Terminal. He wrote more than 7k+ posts and helped numerous readers to master IT topics. Vivek Gite is the founder of nixCraft, the oldest running blog about Linux and open source. See the zip and tar command man page documentation by typing the following man command: Howto Use tar command through network over ssh session.You learend how to comporess a whole directory in Linux, macOS, *BSD and Unix-like systems using the zip command/tar command. -j : Compress archive using bzip2 program in Linux or Unix.Tar -cvf - file1 file2 dir3 | gzip > How to use bzip2 compression instead of gzip compression If your system does not use GNU tar, you can still create a compressed tar file, via the following syntax: The above syntax use GNU tar command for compressing and uncompressing tar files. Tar -zcvf /path/to/dir1/ /path/to/dir2/ A note about non gnu/tar command You can compress multiple directories too: To compress directory named /home/vivek/bin/ in to a /tmp/ type the tar command on Linux:

$ ls - Compress an entire directory to a single file If you wish to extract files in particular directory, for example in /tmp then you need to use the following command: If you wish to restore your archive then you need to use the following command (it will extract all files in current directory): $ tar -zcvf /home/jerry/progĪbove command will create an archive file called in current directory. -v : Verbose i.e display progress while creating archiveįor example, say you have a directory called /home/jerry/prog and you would like to compress this directory then you can type tar command as follows:.-z : Compress archive using gzip program in Linux or Unix.You need to use the tar command as follows (syntax of tar command):

How to compress a whole directory in Linux or Unix

Additional operations includes listing, deleting or updating the archive files.

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