Linux : How to gzip a folder
By：Roy.LiuLast updated：2019-08-17
On Linux, gzip is unable to compress a folder, it used to compress a single file only. To compress a folder, you should use tar + gzip, which is tar -z.
Note
$ tar --help -z, -j, -J, --lzma Compress archive with gzip/bzip2/xz/lzma
For example,
tar -zcvf outputFileName folderToCompress
1. Tar + Gzip a folder
Example to gzip a folder named “newrelic”, and also all the files within that folder, into a single compressed file newrelic.tar.gz
$ tar -zcvf newrelic.tar.gz newrelic/
a newrelic
a newrelic/.DS_Store
a newrelic/CHANGELOG
a newrelic/extension-example.xml
a newrelic/extension.xsd
a newrelic/LICENSE
a newrelic/newrelic-api-sources.jar
a newrelic/newrelic-api.jar
a newrelic/newrelic.jar
a newrelic/newrelic.yml
a newrelic/nrcerts
a newrelic/README.txt
$ ls -lsa
0 drwxr-xr-x 13 mkyong staff 442 Jan 24 21:40 newrelic
11072 -rw-r--r-- 1 mkyong staff 5667938 Jul 23 15:44 newrelic.tar.gz
List the contents of newrelic.tar.gz
$ tar -tf newrelic.tar.gz newrelic/ newrelic/._.DS_Store newrelic/.DS_Store newrelic/._CHANGELOG newrelic/CHANGELOG newrelic/._extension-example.xml newrelic/extension-example.xml newrelic/._extension.xsd newrelic/extension.xsd newrelic/._LICENSE newrelic/LICENSE newrelic/._newrelic-api-sources.jar newrelic/newrelic-api-sources.jar newrelic/._newrelic-api.jar newrelic/newrelic-api.jar newrelic/._newrelic.jar newrelic/newrelic.jar newrelic/._newrelic.yml newrelic/newrelic.yml newrelic/._nrcerts newrelic/nrcerts newrelic/._README.txt newrelic/README.txt
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