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