This document discusses various file compression and archiving utilities including compress, gzip, zip, tar, cpio, pax, xz, shar, and uuencode. It provides examples of how to compress and uncompress files using compress, gzip, and tar, and explains that tar can be used to create, extract, and test archives. It also notes that tar supports gzip compression and can work with files with a .tgz or .tar.gz extension.

1. compress
Date: 2019-01-16
Written by t0spring

2. idx
● compress
● zip but gzip
● tar
● one more thing

3. compress
● compress foo
● ls foo.Z
● file foo.Z
● uncompress foo

4. zip but gzip
● gzip -9 foo.txt
● ls foo.txt.gz
● file foo.txt.gz
● gunzip foo.txt.gz
● gzip -d foo.txt.gz

5. tar
● tar tvfz foo.tar.gz
● tar tvfz foo.tgz
● tar tvf foo.tar
● tar xvfz foo.tgz
● tar cvfz bar.tgz bar
● Tape Archive
● c: create
● f: file
● x: extract
● z: zip
● t: test
● v: verbose

6. one more thing
● cpio
● pax
● xz
● shar
● uuencode

7. fine