gzip, bzip, tar: compression and decompression

From wiki

 

(1) gzip

 

compress	gzip cvs.pdf
decompress	gzip -d cvs.pdf.gz  or gunzip cvs.pdf.gz

(2) bzip2

compress	bzip2   cvs.pdf
decompress	bzip2   -d   cvs.pdf.bz2    or   bunzip2 cvs.pdf.bz2

 

 

(3) tar (most common)

compress: tar cvf test.tar test

decompress1: tar  xvfz  test.tar.gz

decompress2: tar  xvfj   test.tar.bz2

 

So Simple 🙂