How to (compress) gzip a folder?

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How to gzip a folder?

Gzip can only compress a single file. tar can archive multiple files, but it doesn't compress them. Therefore the two tools are oftne used together: first you archive all the files into one with tar, then you compress that file with gzip (that's the z option in the tar command).

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tar -cvzpf archive.tar.gz /home/example/public_html/folder

To uncompress again:

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tar -xvzpf archive.tar.gz