Linux Chapter 9 - Archiving and Compression

common tar options (9.3.2)

-t (list the files in an archive) -j (decompress with an bzip2 command) -f ARCHIVE (operate on the given archive)

common tar options (9.3.3)

-x (extract files from an archive) -j (decompress with the bzip2 command) -f ARCHIVE (operate on the given archive) -v (verbosely list the files processed)

zip

Command used to archive and compress files. The primary archiving utility in Microsoft. (9.4)

bzip2

Command used to compress and decompress files using the Burrows-Wheeler compression algorithm. (9.2)

gzip

Command used to compress and decompress files using the Lempel-Ziv compression algorithm. (9.2)

xz

Command used to compress and decompress files using the Lempel-Ziv-Markov compression algorithm. (9.2)

tar

Command used to create, extract, and view archive files. The traditional UNIX archiving utility. (9.3)

unzip

Command used to list and extract files from ZIP archives. (9.4)

common tar options (9.3.1)

Creating an archive with the tar command requires two named options: -c (create an archive) -f ARCHIVE (Use archive file. The argument ARCHIVE will be the name of the resulting archive file) ---------- -z (compress or decompress an archive using the gzip command) -j (compress or decompress an archive using the bzip2 command)