Compression Utilities
Compression utilities are a necessity in a Linux environment. Table A.12 contains a list of the main tools used in compression tasks. Table A.12. Compression Utilities | COMMAND | GENERAL USAGE | DESCRIPTION |
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| gzip | gzip FILE | Utility used to compress files. (Commonly used to compress tar archives.) Files compressed with gzip usually have a .gz extension. | | gunzip | gunzip FILE.gz | Utility used to uncompress gzip files. (Same as gzip -d.) | | bzip2 | bzip2 FILE | Utility used to compress files. (Utilizes a different algorithm than gzip. Also used to compress tar archives.) Files compressed with bzip2 usually have a .bz2 extension. | | bunzip2 | bunzip2 FILE.bz2 | Utility used to uncompress bzip2 files. (Same as bzip2 -d.) |
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