Linux tar

Tar commands

Create an archive

To tar up a folder

tar -czf ./destination.tgz ./source/*

These options mean

c - create a new archive
z - use gzip to compress the archive
f - file

When using tar, these are the extensions.

 *.tar - just archived no compression
 *.tgz - dos use to only allow three char extensions, so this is tar and gziped.
 *.tar.gz  -  modern extension for tar and gzip compressed.