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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