Tar/Gzip Simple How-to
Posted by Chad Humphries over 2 years ago / Source: http://www.gzip.org/#faq14 
With GNU tar:
gtar cvzf file.tar.gz filenames
With tar:
tar cvf -  filenames | gzip > file.tar.gz
Decompression:
tar -xzvf file.tar.gz
Language Shell/Scripting / Tagged with compression