The following command will be used when you are taking the backup of data. Compressing the file to minimal size to transfer to another location. There are 3 types of compression utlities in linux basically ie .gz,.bz2 and .zip files.
Archiving & Compression |
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Command |
Description |
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# bunzip2 filename.bz2 |
Uncompressing “filename.bz2 to filename” |
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# bzip2 filename |
compress a “filename to filename.bz2” |
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# gunzip filename.gz |
Uncompressing “filename.gz to filename” |
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# gzip filename |
compress a “filename to filename.gz” |
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# tar -cvf backup.tar filename |
Create tarball in name of “backup.tar” |
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# tar -cvf backup.tar file1 file2 |
create tarball from ‘file1’, ‘file2’ |
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# tar -tvf backup.tar |
To view the content of tarball |
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# tar -xvf backup.tar |
extract a tarball |
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# tar -xvf backup.tar -C /location |
extract a tarball into location where u want |
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# tar -jcvf backup.tar.bz2 file1 |
create a tarball with bz2 compression |
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# tar -jxvf backup.tar.bz2 |
Uncompress the bz2 file |
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# tar -tvf backup.tar.bz2 |
To view the content of tarball bz2 |
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# tar -zcvf archive.tar.gz dir1 |
create a tarball with gz compression |
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# tar -zxvf archive.tar.gz |
Uncompress the gz file |
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# tar -tvf backup.tar.gz |
To view the content of tarball gz |
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# unzip file.zip |
decompress a zip archive |
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# zip file.zip file |
create an compressed in zip |
