October 26, 2023

Compress multiple directories (folders) with gzip

gzip only compresses a file into an archive, not a collection of file or directories. So you need to use the utility tar to store multiple files or directories into one file before compressing them. To do so, run:

$ tar -vcf folder.tar folder1 folder2 file1
$ gzip folder.tar

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