linux compress a file to gz with tar code example
Example 1: how to zip with tar command
tar -czvf archive.tar.gz /usr/local/somethingExample 2: command to compress folder linux
tar -czvf name-of-archive.tar.gz /path/to/directory-or-filetar -czvf archive.tar.gz /usr/local/somethingtar -czvf name-of-archive.tar.gz /path/to/directory-or-file