@milan gzip only does individual files. Tar does multiple files but doesn't do compression. That's how we invented the gzipped tarball. (tar has a gzip flag)
tar zcf name.tar.gz directory/
z: gzip-compress the output
c: create archive (versus x:extract, t:test)
f: write to the named file instead of stdout
@TerrorBite thank you, i have understood it like that :)