Comments on: How do I Compress a Whole Linux or UNIX Directory?

By: Pratik

Pratik — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 08:57:57 +0000

Thanks a ton :)

By: matthew

matthew — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 05:20:27 +0000

Nice clear and concise tutorial !! Well done

Regards,
Matthew

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 11:02:15 +0000

Thanks for helping out – very straightforward.
Well done.
Mike

By: Daniel Clem

Daniel Clem — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 09:02:39 +0000

THANK YOU, this saved my first Minecrafts world. I was playing around with compiz and trying to make my windows slightly transparent like you see people have in videos. But forgot to turn the setting down from 100% or 0% or whatever before setting the window type to “any”. so then every single window dissappeared and I couldn’t see even an outline or shadow. AHHHGGGG!!!!! Luckily the only thing I actually cared about on that system was the minecraft world I’d been playing on. So I was able to open a terminal, type these commands in blind, then do a move command to get the new “saves.tar.gz” into my dropbox folder.

This post just turned a annoyed and ticked off night, into a “Hallelujah, THANK YOU GOD” kind of night lol

Thanks to Vivek Gite also though, and to all the other Linux/Unix/PC in general Pro’s out there that put these tid-bits of info on the net. They save absent minded people like me all the time!!! :-P

God Bless ya’s,
Daniel

By: Junaid

Junaid — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 06:46:15 +0000

Nice article
Thanks

By: Saeasy

Saeasy — Tue, 17 May 2011 22:58:11 +0000

Hi, I have to compress multiple dir within a dir and i used tar -czf option.. it created tgz file, but it doesnt remove the original directories.. Is there any way or option in zip/compress/archive to remove the original files after compression.. thanks

By: Nicola Hamwi

Nicola Hamwi — Sat, 09 Apr 2011 12:20:45 +0000

Excellent tutorial !!!

By: HiTux

HiTux — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 17:16:11 +0000

Thanks, this is good, but usaully when i compress an archive i want also crypt it using a password. Could you help me to do it??????????????? :-)

By: Adeel

Adeel — Sat, 12 Feb 2011 12:25:28 +0000

Thanks, easy to understand and excellent guide.

By: avi

avi — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 12:12:44 +0000

thanks

By: Tsrlinkan

Tsrlinkan — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 22:06:43 +0000

Wowwwww really simple and efficient !!!!!!!!!!!!! Thanks for the useful thing

By: sekhar

sekhar — Wed, 24 Nov 2010 05:29:48 +0000

HI Excellent Tutorial .

i Have one question, Is it possible to gzip all the files in a directory and remove all the files once we gziped is finished.
Hope u got my point ?

By: vishal sapkal

vishal sapkal — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 15:15:19 +0000

very good
can u give how to compress detail directory

By: Praveen

Praveen — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 10:09:17 +0000

Hiii

Thanks for ur excellent help it did a lot for meeeeeeeeeeeeeee

By: eta

eta — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 01:29:06 +0000

Thanks for compress in linux tutorial.

By: Tuhin Paul

Tuhin Paul — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 03:23:04 +0000

Thank you very much.
Truly very helpful.

By: Shounka

Shounka — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 06:55:49 +0000

Thanks, its really very helpful!

By: ihraz

ihraz — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 07:09:01 +0000

thanks..

By: Hippy

Hippy — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 00:18:29 +0000

Very usefull been a long time since I done this had to refresh and this was perfect thanks

By: Jen

Jen — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 21:09:31 +0000

This is an excellent tutorial! Simple and easy to understand. Cool!