LKBEN10960: Howto create a tar gz file from a directory
Symptom
You need to create a tar gz file for creating an archive or for copying to another system
Cause
none
Solution
To create a tar file of a directory structure you use the following command:
tar czvf filename.tgz directoryname
To unpack it on another system you use:
tar zxvf filename.tgz
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Author: Wim Peeters - Keskon GmbH & Co. KG
Wim Peeters is electronics engineer with an additional master in IT and over 30 years of experience, including time spent in support, development, consulting, training and database administration. Wim has worked with SQL Server since version 6.5. He has developed in C/C++, Java and C# on Windows and Linux. He writes knowledge base articles to solve IT problems and publishes them on the Lubby Knowledge Platform.