{"id":644,"date":"2016-11-04T03:11:14","date_gmt":"2016-11-03T21:11:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hasibul.info\/blog\/?p=644"},"modified":"2016-11-04T03:11:14","modified_gmt":"2016-11-03T21:11:14","slug":"how-to-compress-zip-a-directory-in-linux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hasibul.info\/blog\/2016\/11\/04\/how-to-compress-zip-a-directory-in-linux\/","title":{"rendered":"How to compress \/ zip a directory in Linux"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To compress in tar.gz format:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>tar -cv \/directory | gzip &gt; archive.tar.gz<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>To decompress the tar.gz file:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>tar -zxvf archive.tar.gz<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To compress in tar.gz format: tar -cv \/directory | gzip &gt; archive.tar.gz To decompress the tar.gz file: tar -zxvf archive.tar.gz<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13,18,6,12],"tags":[284,226,283,285],"how-to":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hasibul.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hasibul.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hasibul.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hasibul.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hasibul.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hasibul.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hasibul.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hasibul.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hasibul.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=644"},{"taxonomy":"how-to","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hasibul.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/how-to?post=644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}