Computer Tips - Linux: The Linux compression commands

Date: 2007nov2 Updated: 2017oct28 OS: Linux Level: Beginner Q. Linux: The Linux compression commands A. You can use:
Creating Extracting Purpose -------- ---------- ------- bzip2 bunzip2 Great compression for big files compress uncompress Obsolete gzip gunzip Good compression xz unxz The current winner zip unzip Windows compatible compression
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