July 2024

To compress a directory in Linux you can use the zip command:

zip -r output_file.zip folder

You can compress multiple directories too by adding the folders' names :

zip -r output_file.zip folder1 folder2 folder3

To decompress the zipped file, use the command unzip:

To compress a directory in Linux, you can use the tar command:

tar -zcvf file.tar.gz folder

To exclude a specific folder or files, use the –exclude= option with the folder name:

tar -zcvf file.tar.gz –exclude='temp' –exclude='node_modules' folder

To decompress a file, use the -x option: