Unix and Linux: Visual Quickstart Guide, Fifth Edition

13. Working with Encoded and Compressed Files

In This Chapter

Encoding Files with uuencode

Decoding Files with uudecode

Archiving with tar

Unarchiving Files with tar

Compressing Files with compress

Uncompressing Files with uncompress

Zipping a File or Directory with gzip

Unzipping a gzip File with gunzip

Zipping Files and Directories with zip

Unzipping Zipped Files with unzip

Combining Commands

As you use Unix, you will quite possibly encounter encoded or compressed files and have to extract, unencode, encode, or otherwise manipulate the files to be able to view or use them. This chapter discusses ways of encoding and compressing files.

Encoding Files with uuencode

You’ll use encoding whenever you’re sending a binary file (a nontext file) ...