how to make a compressed tarball in bash code example

Example 1: create tar gz file from directory

tar -czf tarball.tar.gz my_directory/

Example 2: how to tar a file

tar -czvf name-of-archive.tar.gz /path/to/directory-or-file

Example 3: how to make a tarball in linux

tar -cvzf name.tar /path/to/directory