Archiving & Compression |
|
Command |
Description |
# bunzip2 filename.bz2 |
Uncompressing “filename.bz2 to filename” |
# bzip2 filename |
compress a “filename to filename.bz2” |
# gunzip filename.gz |
Uncompressing “filename.gz to filename” |
# gzip filename |
compress a “filename to filename.gz” |
# tar -cvf backup.tar filename |
Create tarball in name of “backup.tar” |
# tar -cvf backup.tar file1 file2 |
create tarball from ‘file1’, ‘file2’ |
# tar -tvf backup.tar |
To view the content of tarball |
# tar -xvf backup.tar |
extract a tarball |
# tar -xvf backup.tar -C /location |
extract a tarball into location where u want |
# tar -jcvf backup.tar.bz2 file1 |
create a tarball with bz2 compression |
# tar -jxvf backup.tar.bz2 |
Uncompress the bz2 file |
# tar -tvf backup.tar.bz2 |
To view the content of tarball bz2 |
# tar -zcvf archive.tar.gz dir1 |
create a tarball with gz compression |
# tar -zxvf archive.tar.gz |
Uncompress the gz file |
# tar -tvf backup.tar.gz |
To view the content of tarball gz |
# unzip file.zip |
decompress a zip archive |
# zip file.zip file |
create an compressed in zip |