How To Tar A Directory

February 23rd, 2008

I constantly forget how to tar a directory. I think the ln command and the tar command have their parameters in different orders and I can never seem to remember which parameter is the dir you are archiving and which one is the name for the archive. So here it is:

tar -czf archive.tgz dirName
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