Tarball or tar is a utility in linux to unpack or pack the files.
Lets say we have a file name hello.tar.gz which is packed and compressed.
To unpack the file use the below command
> tar xvzf hello.tar.gz
This is unpack the compressed tarball file to the directory hello in current location.
To pack a list of files to a compressed tarball file , we can follow the below steps.
Let say we have the following list of files in Hello directory.
> cd Hello
> ls
helloworld.py
README.txt
Move back to parent directory and give the below command.
> cd ..
> tar zcvf hello.tar.gz Hello
This will create the compressed tar file in the current location
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