How to gzip all files in all sub directories into one compressed file in bash?

Question

Can anyone tell me how to create a larger gzip file for all files in a directory,  also I should be able to output the compressed file name and overwrite my old compressed file? 

Answer 1

Use the code below: 

tar -zcvf compressFileName.tar.gz folderToCompress

This will transfer all the files in folderToCompress to compressFileName. 

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