Moving large files, or directories around
- Use dropbox if they are not too large, otherwise
- Use the "tar" command
- If you have not used this command before **practice** (make up a directory with some test files in it) since you can destroy the WHOLE directory if you do it wrong.
- for example, for a directory called "jobs"
tar -cvfz jobs.tar.gz jobs
- the -c command means concatonate all files
- the -v is for verbose output
- the -f is to create a file
- the -z is to compress or gzip the whole lot
- to uncompress and expand out
gunzip jobs.tar.gz
tar -xvf jobs.tar
- we need to uncompress first using the gzip utility
- then use the tar command to expand the decompressed file
- the -x is to expand
