I always forget how to use tar to create a .tar.gz file. While yes, man pages will provide this info, it’s far quicker to search online. To make it easy for me find, and anyone else, here it is:
Creating at tar gzip tar -czf new_tar_gzip_file.tar.gz /thedirectory_to_tar_gzip
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