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
In unix searching takes place with the help of grep command. Here are the list of commands to learn searching in unix
grep pattern files – search for pattern in files
grep -r pattern dir – search recursively for
pattern in dir
command | grep pattern – search for pattern in the
output of command
locate file – find all instances of file
For Basic commands tutorial. Please refer to Basic commands in unix
For Process Management tutorial. Please refer to Process Management commands in unix
For Setting File permissions please visit the tutorial File Permissions in unix
To learn how to connect to another host machine using unix. Learn ssh
