cli-tarHow do I use gzip, tar, and zip to compress files?

Gzip, tar, and zip are three popular tools for compressing files.

Gzip is a file compression tool that compresses files to the .gz format. To compress a file with gzip, run the command gzip <filename> in the terminal.

Tar is a file archiving and compression tool. To compress a file with tar, run the command tar -czf <archive-name>.tar.gz <filename> in the terminal.

Zip is a file archiving and compression tool. To compress a file with zip, run the command zip <archive-name>.zip <filename> in the terminal.

For example, to compress a file called test.txt with gzip, run the following command:

gzip test.txt

This will create a compressed file called test.txt.gz.

To compress a file called test.txt with tar, run the following command:

tar -czf test.tar.gz test.txt

This will create a compressed file called test.tar.gz.

To compress a file called test.txt with zip, run the following command:

zip test.zip test.txt

This will create a compressed file called test.zip.

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