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
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