Zip all files including hidden in Linux

Last updated Jul 24, 2023

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To compress an entire folder and files inside including hidden on Linux, recursively.

You can use the tar command to create a compressed archive of all files and folders in a directory, including hidden files and folders, recursively. To do this, you can use the following command:

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tar -czvf archive_name.tar.gz /path/to/directory

• -c: Create a new archive.
• -z: Compress the archive using gzip.
• -v: Verbose mode, which shows the progress of the archiving process.
• -f: Specify the name of the archive file. In this case, you can replace archive_name.tar.gz with the desired name of the compressed archive file.
• /path/to/directory: The path to the directory that you want to compress. Replace this with the actual path to your target directory.

This command will create a compressed tar archive (with gzip compression) named “archive_name.tar.gz” in the current working directory, containing all files and subdirectories, including hidden files and directories, from the specified directory.

For example, to compress all files and folders, including hidden ones, in the “/home/user/documents” directory, you can use the following command:

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tar -czvf my_documents.tar.gz /home/user/documents

This will create a compressed archive named “my_documents.tar.gz” in the current working directory, containing all files and directories from the “/home/user/documents” directory.

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