{"id":21735,"date":"2023-09-30T17:33:05","date_gmt":"2023-09-30T17:33:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/linuxways.net\/?p=21735"},"modified":"2023-09-30T17:33:05","modified_gmt":"2023-09-30T17:33:05","slug":"how-to-create-a-tar-file-in-linux-ubuntu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/linuxways.net\/de\/ubuntu\/how-to-create-a-tar-file-in-linux-ubuntu\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Create a tar File in Linux\/Ubuntu?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Data compression<\/strong> is done to optimize data storage on storage mediums like SSD, Cloud, etc. Data compression results in larger storage availability, cost savings due to larger space availability, and faster data transfer rates.<\/p>\n

Tar <\/strong>is a command line tool that handles a variety of compression formats like \u201c.gz<\/strong>\u201d, \u201c.xz<\/strong>\u201d, \u201c.tbz<\/strong>\u201d, \u201c.bz2<\/strong>\u201d etc. This article will demonstrate the creation of three tar compression formats on Linux\/Ubuntu 22.04. LTS systems.<\/p>\n

<\/a>How to Create a tar.gz File in Linux\/Ubuntu?<\/h2>\n

The \u201ctar.gz<\/strong>\u201d is a compressed archive file format for Linux systems that uses the \u201cgzip\u201d compression algorithm.<\/p>\n

Consider that we have a set of five text files: \u201cFile1.txt, File2.txt, File3.txt, File4.txt, and File5.txt\u201d in a directory that needs to be compressed as shown below:<\/p>\n

$ <\/span>ls<\/span> -l<\/span><\/div><\/div>\n

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We will run the following command to compress these five files to create a tar.gz compressed archive:<\/p>\n

$ <\/span>tar<\/span> czf archive.tar.gz *<\/span>.txt<\/div><\/div>\n

The above command comprises of:<\/p>\n