| Command |
Description |
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# bunzip2 file1.bz2 |
decompress a file called 'file1.bz2' [man] |
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# bzip2 file1 |
compress a file called 'file1' [man] |
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# gunzip file1.gz |
decompress a file called 'file1.gz' [man] |
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# gzip file1 |
compress a file called 'file1' [man] |
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# gzip -9 file1 |
compress with maximum compression [man] |
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# rar a file1.rar test_file |
create an archive rar called 'file1.rar' [man] |
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# rar a file1.rar file1 file2 dir1 |
compress 'file1', 'file2' and 'dir1' simultaneously [man] |
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# rar x file1.rar |
decompress rar archive [man] |
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# tar -cvf archive.tar file1 |
create a uncompressed tarball [man] |
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# tar -cvf archive.tar file1 file2 dir1 |
create an archive containing 'file1', 'file2' and 'dir1' [man] |
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# tar -tf archive.tar |
show contents of an archive [man] |
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# tar -xvf archive.tar |
extract a tarball [man] |
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# tar -xvf archive.tar -C /tmp |
extract a tarball into / tmp [man] |
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# tar -cvfj archive.tar.bz2 dir1 |
create a tarball compressed into bzip2 [man] |
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# tar -xvfj archive.tar.bz2 |
decompress a compressed tar archive in bzip2 [man] |
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# tar -cvfz archive.tar.gz dir1 |
create a tarball compressed into gzip [man] |
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# tar -xvfz archive.tar.gz |
decompress a compressed tar archive in gzip [man] |
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# unrar x file1.rar |
decompress rar archive [man] |
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# unzip file1.zip |
decompress a zip archive [man] |
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# zip file1.zip file1 |
create an archive compressed in zip [man] |
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# zip -r file1.zip file1 file2 dir1 |
compress in zip several files and directories simultaneously [man] |
Download offline copy 
Archives and compressed files 
