Linux Compress & Uncompress, Package & Unpackage
Common Compress Formation.zip .gz .bz2 .tar .tar.gz .tar.gz2
zip & unzip (both compress and package but not recommended in linux)
// zip [option] descName srcFile/srcName // -r means path zip test.zip abc.html zip test2.zip abc.html abcd.html // unzip [option] compressedFile // -d means path unzip aaa.zip
gzip (.gz "compress but not package")
// compress gzip -c abc.html > abc.gz // if you just use "gzip abc.html" then the original file will gone // uncompress gzip -d abc.html
bzip2 (.bz2 "compress but not package")
// compress bzip2 -k abc.html // if you just use "bzip2 abc.html" then the original file will gone // uncompress bzip2 -d abc.html
tar (.tar "package but not compress")
// tar [option] [-f packageName.tar] srcFile/srcDirectory // -c package -v verbose //package tar -cvf abc.tar abc.html abcd.html bcd.html //unpackage tar -xvf abc.tar
tar (.tar.gz & .tar.bz2 "compress and package")
/*-z compress and uncompress .tar.gz file */ /*-j compress and uncompress .tar.bz2 file */ // compress and package of .tar.gz tar -zcvf abc.tar.gz abc.html abcd.html bcd.html // output : abc.tar.gz //unpackage and uncompress of .tar.gz tar -zxvf abc.tar.gz // compress and package of .tar.bz2 tar -jcvf abc.tar.bz2 abc.html abcd.html bcd.html // output : abc.tar.bz2 //unpackage and uncompress of .tar.bz2 tar -jxvf abc.tar.bz2