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// 'cuz the last thing anyone should need is to learn tar
// the trick to tar is, the -f flag needs to be the last option enumerated
// compress and archive folder | file
tar -zcf archive_name.tar.gz directory/file
// decompress archive
tar -zxf file.tar.gz
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