learned and not forgotten: using tar to compress and extract files

using tar to compress and extract files

Using tar to compress file(s)

tar –czvf destination.tar.gz source/*

Using tar to uncompress/extract file(s)

tar –xzvf destination.tar.gz

where:
c = create a new tar file
v = verbose , display file to compress or uncompress
f = create the tar file with filename provided as the argument
z = use gzip to zip it
x = extract file