Category Archives: Linux

Compress/Uncompress a Linux Directory

I’m so tired of googling this. The reason I have to look it up every-damn-time is because I can never remember exactly what the switches are for compressing/uncompressing.

The following was taken from here.

Create Archive:

[note color=”#DDD”]tar -zcvf example.tar.gz /home/example[/note]

Where:

  • -z: Compress archive using gzip program
  • -c:
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Setting up a LEMP server on Debian 6

Skip the long winded description

Downloading Packages
Vhost Configuration
Testing
Installing MySQL
Installing phpMyAdmin
Setting up SFTP

I’ve been playing with linux as a hobby for about 13 years and I’ve been running my own virtual servers for web and mail for about 2. In all that time, my only […] Continue Reading

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