gzip and gunzip Command
- to zip a file
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Syntax: <br/> gzip <file_name> - to unzip a file
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Syntax: <br/> gunzip <file_name> OR gzip -d <file_name>
tar Command
- To convert an entire directory into an archive file.
- different options available in with tar are:-
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Syntax: <br/> tar cvf <filename>.tar file_path/folder_path Output: This creates an archive file with extension `.tar`Tar file is then compressed using gzip with extension
filename.tar.gz
- To decompress and unzip a tar file
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Syntax: <br/> tar xvf <name.tar.gz>
tar and zip at the same time
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Syntax: <br/>
tar -zcvf <filename>.tar.gz file_path
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tar -zxvf <filename>.tar.gz