How to compress files using SSH?

[Henry Rose]

Hello

I am a novice user to SSH thing or is it SSL...what is the actual difference between both? Anyway, that is not so important, actually I am looking at the SSH black screen and thinking what is the right command to compress a folder into tar.zg? I know how to navigate the folders and also know how to extract it, but the funny problem is I don't know how to compress it?

[valentine]

Hello Henry hope you are well.
If you need to compress a folder just fire the below command:

tar cf dir.tar dir/
tar czf dir.tar.gz dir/
tar cjf dir.tar.bz2 dir/

Here the first command will be generating a normal .tar file
The secound command will generate a tar.gz (which you want to do ) and the last command will generate .tar.bz2.

Ok now lets come to the description of the above command that is each options like 'c' , 'z' ,'f'

-c, --create is used to create a new archive
-f, --file [HOSTNAME:]F use archive file or device F
-z, --gzip, --ungzip filter the archive through gzip,

Now let see how to extract or unzip the files
To unzip or extract just fire the below command:

tar xf dir.tar
tar xf dir.tar.gz
tar xf dir.tar.bz2

Here -x, --extract, --get extract files from an archive

Thats it!! Hope this information helps you.

[Henry Rose]

Hello valentine I guess, I am well, but not sure, as I have a strong hangover of last night and I am still feeling that I am in kindergarten school Anyway, thanks for the tutorial and guidelines.....