Compress:
tar -czvf name-of-archive.tar.gz /path/to/directory-or-file
Uncompress:
tar -xzvf archive.tar.gz
Legend:
-c: Create an archive.
-z: Compress the archive with gzip.
-v: Display progress in the terminal while creating the archive, also known as “verbose” mode. The v is always optional in these commands, but it’s helpful.
-f: Allows you to specify the filename of the archive.
-x: extract