tar -zcvf website.tar.gz /var/www

• -z : Compress archive using gzip program in Linux or Unix
• -c : Create archive on Linux
• -v : Verbose i.e display progress while creating archive
• -f : Archive File name

tar xfz foo.tar.gz

To untar in verbose mode, add v to the list of arguments.

Remove the z if it is not a zipped tar

tar -xzf foo.tar.gz -C /tmp/foo/;

To tar all *.txt files into foo.tar.gz

tar cfz foo.tar.gz *.txt

To tar without compressing, remove the

z

from the list of arguments.

tar cf foo.tar.gz some_directory/

tar tvf foo.tar

To gzip a file

gzip filename

uncompress filename.tar.Z

You will need to have installed rpmforge repository on you computer.

yum install p7zip

You can then use 7zip with the command 7za

adds all files from directory “dir1” to archive archive.7z using “ultra settings”

7za -t7z -m0=lzma -mx=9 -mfb=64 -md=32m -ms=on archive.7z dir1

7za x zrchive.7z