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Linux Command Line version 1.4
Last modified date: 2008-11-15
Created Date: 2008-01-06

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bunzip2 file1.bz2

decompress a file called 'file1.bz2'

bzip2 file1

compress a file called 'file1'

gunzip file1.gz

decompress a file called 'file1.gz'

gzip file1

compress a file called 'file1'

gzip -9 file1

compress with maximum compression

rar a file1.rar test_file

create an archive rar called 'file1.rar'

rar a file1.rar file1 file2 dir1

compress 'file1', 'file2' and 'dir1' simultaneously

rar x file1.rar

decompress rar archive

tar -cvf archive.tar file1

create a uncompressed tarball

tar -cvf archive.tar file1 file2 dir1

create an archive containing 'file1', 'file2' and 'dir1'

tar -tf archive.tar

show contents of an archive

tar -xvf archive.tar

extract a tarball

tar -xvf archive.tar -C /tmp

extract a tarball into / tmp

tar -cvfj archive.tar.bz2 dir1

create a tarball compressed into bzip2

tar -xvfj archive.tar.bz2

decompress a compressed tar archive in bzip2

tar -cvfz archive.tar.gz dir1

create a tarball compressed into gzip

tar -xvfz archive.tar.gz

decompress a compressed tar archive in gzip

unrar x file1.rar

decompress rar archive

unzip file1.zip

decompress a zip archive

zip file1.zip file1

create an archive compressed in zip

zip -r file1.zip file1 file2 dir1

compress in zip several files and directories simultaneously

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