TGZ
A
tgz file is a
compressed archive of directories
and/or files that is prepared by
tarring a directory, and then gzipping the resulting .tar file.
In Linux itīs used:
- To pack the command
- Simple tar file: tar-cf tarredfilename filetopack1 filetopack2 and so on...
- to pack and compress:
- tar-czf tarredfilename filetopack1 filetopack2 and so on...to compress in gzip
- and tar-cjf tarredfilename filetopack1 filetopack2 and so on...to compress in bzip2 file format.
- To unpack tar files
- and uncompress gziped files, the command tar -xzf filetounpack.tar.gz
- and uncompress bzip2ed files, tar -xjf filetounpack.tar.gz.bz2