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

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gzipping up a set of directories and creating a tar compressed file

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tar -zcvf compressFileName.tar.gz folderToCompress

everything in folderToCompress will go to compressFileName

Edit: After review and comments I realized that people may get confused with compressFileName without an extension. If you want you can use .tar.gz extension(as suggested) with the compressFileName