There are a number of ways to compress and uncompress files and folders in a linux terminal but I typically use tar.gz;
To compress
tar -zcvf archive_name.tar.gz folder_to_compress
To extract
tar -zxvf archive_name.tar.gz
There are a number of ways to compress and uncompress files and folders in a linux terminal but I typically use tar.gz;
To compress
tar -zcvf archive_name.tar.gz folder_to_compress
To extract
tar -zxvf archive_name.tar.gz