How to compress and uncompress files and folders in Terminal in OSX 10.11

How to compress and uncompress files and folders in Terminal in OSX 10.11:

TAR.GZ – Cross Platform:

To compress:

tar -zcvf archive_name.tar.gz folder_to_compress

To extract:

tar -zxvf archive_name.tar.gz

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