Archive and Compress a Directory

Archive, ZIP/Unzip and Compress/Decompress a Directory

$ tar -zcvf archive.tar.gz sourcedirectory/

Exclude a directory(s) from the archive:

$ tar -zcvf archive.tar.gz sourcedirectory/ --exclude=exclude01-dir/* --exclude=exclude02-dir/subdir/*


ZIP

$ zip db.zip foo-file

$ zip -r dir.zip directory/

Extract contents of a GZ archive
$ gunzip archive.sql.gz

or

$ gzip -d archive.sql.gz


Extract contents of a TAR GZ Archive
$ tar -zxvf archive.tar.gz