[macrophyllum]

I have written an app in Java that I would like to compress using tar so that I can post it on the internet for download. Does anyone know how I do this? I want to tar a directory that has the app and a readme file in it.

[parallax]

Let's say you have a folder named foo

You'd go to that directory in the Terminal, then type

tar cvf foo.tar foo

For additional compression (tar.gz) use

gzip foo.tar

And you'll have foo.tar.gz

[macrophyllum]

Thank you! Worked great!

[Dalgo]

Actually, gnutar has a gzipping feature built into it so you could just type:

gnutar -czvf foo.tar.gz foo

Note the z parameter added to the commands. I don't think that tar has this feature, but I'm not sure.