Compress a Folder in Linux using Command line

To create a .gz archive of a directory and its sub-directories
tar -cvzf filename.tar.gz directory_to_compress/

To extract the compressed file, replace -cvzf with -xvzf

To create a .zip acrhive
zip -r filename.zip folder_to_zip

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