File Compression

Compression and Decompressing
Get file extension 
 file unknownfiletype.bin
 
 unknownfiletype.bin: gzip compressed data, was “data2.bin”, last modified: Thu May 7 18:14:30 2020, max compression, from Unix
 
 Decompress 
 Decompress Tarball 
 tar xf file3.tar
 
 Extract .tar.gz file to current working directory and print output: 
 tar -xvf file4.tar.gz
 
 Decompress gzip 
 gzip -d file.gz
 
 Decompress bzip2 
 bzip2 -d file2.bz2
 
 Decompress .tar.gz file with gzip: 
 gzip -d file5.tar
 
 compress 
 using tar 
 tar czf <archive name>.tar.gz <file(s) or location(s)>
 
 Using gzip 
 Compressing Files with gzip 
 gzip filename
 
 Compressing Files with gzip. Keep the original file 
 gzip -k filename
 
 Compress multiple files 
 gzip file1 file2 file3
 
 using bzip2 
 bzip2 -z file.txt