Working with Compressed Files
Another file management operation is compression and decompression of files, or the creation, listing, and expansion of file and directory archives. Linux distributions usually include several compression utilities you can use to create, compress, expand, or list the contents of compressed files and archives. These commands include the following:
• bunzip2—Expands a compressed file
• bzip2—Compresses or expands files and directories
• gunzip—Expands a compressed file
• gzip—Compresses or expands files and directories
• tar—Creates, expands, or lists the contents of compressed or uncompressed file or directory archives known as tape archives or tarballs
Most of these commands are easy to use. However, the tar command, ...
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