How do I zip & download files on an ubuntu server? [closed]

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I have gotten SSH access into an EC2 instance of Ubuntu.

I want to zip an entire folder, and download it to my local machine.

The folder is large – 2GB+.

How do I do that?

Answer

The are several ways to do what you want, one of them, assuming your local machine is a Windows one, would be:

  1. Acces via putty onto the ubuntu machine

  2. use tar to archive and compress the directory, for example using bzip2

    tar cjvf /path/to/target/archive.tar.bz2 /path/to/directory/to/compress

  3. use psftp, access to the ubuntu machine and download the tar file

Read the tar(1) manual page for more details.

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Source : Link , Question Author : marc.gayle , Answer Author : dawud

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