How to Make a Directory in Linux?

Create and extract a .tar.gz archive using command line

• To create a tar.gz archive from a given folder you can use the following command. tar -zcvf tar-archive-name.tar.gz source-folder-name.
• To extract a tar.gz compressed archive you can use the following command. tar -zxvf tar-archive-name.tar.gz.
• To Preserve permissions.
• Switch the ‘c’ flag to an ‘x’ to extract (uncompress).

Create and extract a .tar.gz archive using command line

• To create a tar.gz archive from a given folder you can use the following command. tar -zcvf tar-archive-name.tar.gz source-folder-name.
• To extract a tar.gz compressed archive you can use the following command. tar -zxvf tar-archive-name.tar.gz.
• To Preserve permissions.
• Switch the ‘c’ flag to an ‘x’ to extract (uncompress).

Steps

• Gather your ISO files in the home directory. Place any files that you want to turn into an ISO file in a folder inside of the home folder.
• Open Terminal. Open the Menu, then click Terminal to open it.
• Enter the “change directory” command.
• Type in the ISO creation command.
• Press ↵ Enter .

Tar Notes

• Usage / Syntax. command [-options] /location/of/new/file.tar /files/to/archive.
• Example.
• Popular options and their significance.
• To extract files from your file.
• To select files for the tar file using find.
• To move tar file from one location to another.

How do I create a directory in Unix?

Directories

1. mkdir dirname — make a new directory.
2. cd dirname — change directory. You basically ‘go’ to another directory, and you will see the files in that directory when you do ‘ls’.
3. pwd — tells you where you currently are.

How do you create a directory?

To create a directory in MS-DOS or the Windows command line, use the md or mkdir MS-DOS command. For example, below we are creating a new directory called “hope” in the current directory. You can also create multiple new directories in the current directory by using the md command.