Compression in Unix

Compression in unix is done by using the tar and gzip command. Using these commands we can combine a list of files into tar and compression it using gzip command.

tar command in unix

tar cf file.tar files – create a tar named
file.tar containing files
tar xf file.tar – extract the files from file.tar
tar czf file.tar.gz files – create a tar with
Gzip compression
tar xzf file.tar.gz – extract a tar using Gzip
tar cjf file.tar.bz2 – create a tar with Bzip2
compression
tar xjf file.tar.bz2 – extract a tar using Bzip2

gzip command in unix

gzip file – compresses file and renames it to
file.gz
gzip -d file.gz – decompresses file.gz back to
file

To learn basic search in unix visit tutorial Searching in Unix

To learn system information commands visit tutorial System Information commands in unix