Uploaded February 2016 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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ARCHIVING + COMPRESSION ON LINUX:
tar -zcvf docs.tar.gz Documents/

DECOMPRESS/UNARCHIVE ON LINUX
tar -zxvf docs.tar.gz

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OPTIONS
z - gzip
c - create archive
f - archive FILE (name file)
v - verbose
x - extract

# Table of Contents: #
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Compression + Archiving: 04:25
Decompression: 07:01
Don't do this: 09:34
Examples (Wordpress vs. Joomla): 12:19
Explanation of 'tar' options: 14:33


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