how to compress a tar file code example
Example 1: how to tar linux
tar -zcvf file.tar.gz /path/to/dir/
Example 2: how to tar
tar -czvf name-of-archive.tar.gz /path/to/directory-or-file
tar -zcvf file.tar.gz /path/to/dir/
tar -czvf name-of-archive.tar.gz /path/to/directory-or-file