Linux compress and extract tar.gz and zip archives
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tar -czf backup.tar.gz folder/ # create tar.gz
tar -xzf backup.tar.gz # extract
tar -xzf backup.tar.gz -C /target/ # extract to a folder
zip -r site.zip folder/ # create zip
unzip site.zip -d /target/ # extract zipCreates and unpacks the two most common archive formats.
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