Compress & Extract Files
Let's see the most used tools to compress and extract files: TAR, TAR with GZIP, GZIP, BZIP2, ZIP and RAR.
There are different ways to compress and extract files, and it depends on the compression algorithm used to reduce the files size. The most used and important compression methods are:
- TAR (.tar), also referred to as a tarball.
- TAR with GZIP (.tar.gz or .tgz)
- GZIP (.gz)
- BZIP2 (.bz2)
- ZIP (.zip)
- RAR (.rar)
It is useful to know how to use them in order to work with this kind of files.
Most of them are used by writing the right command line.
When you download a software package, it will usually be compressed, so the first thing you have to do is to extract all the files.
Which one is your favorite? Which one do you think is widely used?
TAR (.tar)
Compress files with TAR
tar cvf archive.tar /path/to/files/directory/*
Extract TAR file
tar xvf archive.tar
TAR with GZIP (.tar.gz or .tgz)
Compress files with TAR and GZIP
tar czvf archive.tgz /path/to/files/directory/*
Extract TAR and GZIP file
tar xzvf archive.tgz
GZIP (.gz)
Compress files with GZIP
gzip -q archive.gz /path/to/files/directory/*
Extract GZIP file
gzip -d archive.gz
BZIP2 (.bz2)
Compress files with BZIP2
bzip2 -z /path/to/files/directory/*
Extract BZIP2 file
bzip2 -d archive.bz2
ZIP (.zip)
Compress files with ZIP
zip archive.zip /path/to/files/directory/*
Extract ZIP files
unzip archive.zip
RAR (.rar)
Compress files with RAR
rar a archive.rar /path/to/files/directory/*
Extract RAR file
rar x archive.rar
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