Introduction
In some circunstances it’s not easy to know the commands which exist to compress or decompress files in Linux (and Unix) environments.
In this posts, I have wrote all the commands I have used for this.
File Types
TAR files
- Pack:
tar -cvf file.tar file1 file2 file3 - Unpack:
tar -xvf file.tar - See content:
tar -tf file.tar
GZ files
- Compress:
gzip -9 file - Decompress:
gzip -d file
BZ2 files
- Compress:
bzip2 file - Decompress:
bzip -d file.bz2
TGZ (or TAR.GZ) files (TAR+GZIP)
- Compress+Pack:
tar -czf file.tgz file1 file2 file3 - Decompress+Unpack:
tar -xvzf file.tgz - See content:
tar -tzf file.tgz
TAR.BZ2 files (TAR+BZIP)
- Compress+Pack:
tar -c files | bzip2 > fileo.tar.bz2 - Decompress+Unpack:
bzip2 -cd file.tar.bz2 | tar -xv - See content:
bzip2 -cd file.tar.bz2 | tar -t
ZIP files
- Compress+Pack:
zip file.zip file1 file2 file3 - Decompress+Unpack:
unzip file.zip
RAR files
- Compress+Pack:
rar -a file.rar file1 file2 file3 - Decompress+Unpack:
rar -x file.rar - See content:
rar -l file.rar