Bash Cookbook

How to do it...

First, let's see how we can compress the files:

1. We are going to look at compression with the help of bzip2. Decide which file to compress and run the following command:

$ bzip2 filename

Using bzip2, we can compress multiple files and directories at the same time. Just separate them by putting a space between each of them. You can compress it as follows:

$ bzip2 file1 file2 file3 /student/work

2. We are going to use zip for compression. By using the zip compression tool, files are compressed individually:

$ zip -r file_name.zip files_dir

After running the preceding command, the file to be compressed or the directory to be compressed, such as files_zip will be compressed and you will get a compressed file called file_name.zip ...