Compressing Files And Archiving In Linux Command

There are strong compression utilities in Linux that can be run easily from the command line. Linux features an archiving utility called tar in which you can add many files, and the tar file will be treated as a single file. You may wonder how this is different from a folder.

Linux features the zip and a gzip utilities to compress and extract (uncompress) files. There is also a bzip and bzip2, but we will talk about zip and gzip.

At the command prompt, use this format compress a file: “gzip filename” The file will be compressed and saved as filename.gz

To extract a compressed file: gunzip filename.gz

The file filename.gz will be deleted, and the extracted file, that is, “filename”, is created in the current folder.

Similarly, to use the zip format so that the file can be opened even on a Windows machine, you can use the zip utility:

zip filename.zip filename (to compress)
unzip filename.zip (to extract)

Archiving at the command prompt

You will need to know the four basic options of the tar command generally used.

C: create a new archive
V: verbose; show the files being archived
X: extract files from an archive
F: when used with C, it means "use the filename specified for creation for the file," "or when used with X, it means use the filename specified for the extracted file."

You can add several files to the archive with the tar utility as follows:

tar -cvf filename.tar /dir1/dir2/dir3 /dir1/dir2/dir3

The files in dir1, dir2 (which is a subdirectory under dir 1) and dir3 (which is a subdirectory under dir2) will be added to the tar archive such that the directory structure is maintained in the form of dir1, dir2 (created under dir1) and dir3 (created under dir2) in the archive. You can of course, specify different folder names in the second set of directories.

Most distributions give you a GUI interface to do this. Having explained the harder way to do this, we leave you to figure out how it is done with the GUI. Have fun!

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