May 2017
Beginner
552 pages
28h 47m
English
Content preview from Linux Shell Scripting Cookbook - Third Edition
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Compressing data with gzip
The gzip application is a common compression format in the GNU/Linux platform. The gzip, gunzip, and zcat programs all handle gzip compression. These utilities only compress/decompress a single file or data stream. They cannot archive directories and multiple files directly. Fortunately, gzip can be used with both tar and cpio.