Getting Started With Raspberry Pi, 4th Edition

If you want to find out all the parameters for a particular command,

you can read the user manual with the man command (or you can

often use the --help option):

pi@raspberrypi ~ $ man curl

pi@raspberrypi ~ $ rm --help

To make a new directory, use mkdir. To bundle all of the files in a

directory into a single file, use the tar command, originally created

for tape archives.

You’ll find a lot of bundles of files or source code are distributed as

tar files, and they’re usually also compressed using the gzip com-

mand. Try this:

pi@raspberrypi ~ $ mkdir myDir

pi@raspberrypi ~ $ cdmy Dir

pi@raspberrypi ~ $ touch foo bar baz

pi@raspberrypi ~ $ cd ..

pi@raspberrypi ~ $ tar -cf myDir.tar myDir

pi@raspberrypi ~ $ gzip myDir.tar

You’ll now have a .tar.gz archive