creating tar.gz file in linux code example
Example 1: create tar gz file from directory
tar -czf tarball.tar.gz my_directory/Example 2: tar.gz files
tar -czvf name-of-archive.tar.gz /path/to/directory-or-filetar -czf tarball.tar.gz my_directory/tar -czvf name-of-archive.tar.gz /path/to/directory-or-file