Extracting and Compressing Tar.gz via command line

• Category: Linux and Apache
• Last edited: October 4, 2012

With explaining the inner workings of all the switches, you can extract / compress .tar.gz archives easily with the following codes:

Compress .tar.gz

$ tar cvzf archive_name.tar.gz dirname/

Extract .tar.gz

$ tar xvfz archive_name.tar.gz