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You can also gzip (or bzip2) your archive using only one 'tar' command like this:<br />
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$ tar -zcf webapps.tar.gz webapps<br />
$ tar -jcf webapps.tar.bz2 webapps<br />
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These commands assume that your current folder is one level upper that your 'webapps' folder
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You can also gzip (or bzip2) your archive using only one 'tar' command like this:

$ tar -zcf webapps.tar.gz webapps
$ tar -jcf webapps.tar.bz2 webapps

These commands assume that your current folder is one level upper that your 'webapps' folder

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tar -zcf webapps.tar.gz webapps<br />
when I run this command it is returning tar: z unknown function modifier. ideally I want to tar up the contents of webapps and not the webapps folder. If I cd to webapps and then replace . with webapps. Is that ok?<br />

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tar -zcf webapps.tar.gz webapps
when I run this command it is returning tar: z unknown function modifier. ideally I want to tar up the contents of webapps and not the webapps folder. If I cd to webapps and then replace . with webapps. Is that ok?


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I have a directory called webapps, all the contents &nbsp;i need to compress into a tar file. &nbsp;How can I do this? Should I use tar or gzip which is the better solution?
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I have a directory called webapps, all the contents  i need to compress into a tar file.  How can I do this? Should I use tar or gzip which is the better solution?

How to use the tar command to tar up a directory

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