tar.gz is de facto standard of file compressing on unix like system. why? powerful and cheap. I got this from here the command to make it on one line.
tar cvf - foodir | gzip > foo.tar.gz
Option c
stand for -c, --create create a new archive
and
v
stand for -v, --verbose verbosely list files processed
and
f
stand for -f, --file=ARCHIVE use archive file or device ARCHIVE
To make better compression use option -9
on gzip. Here is my version of one line command to make .tar.gz package.
tar cvf - foodir | gzip -9 > foo.tar.gz
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