Compress, Extract, Archive File in Red Hat

1. To compress a file.

# gzip testfile.ext

2. To extract a compressed file.

# gunzip testfile.ext.gz

3. To compress a file with zip.

# zip -r testfile.zip

4. To extract the contents of a zip file.

# unzip testfile.zip

5. To create a tar file.

# tar -cvf testfile.tar

6. To list the contents of a tar file.

# tar -tvf testfile.tar

7. To extract the contents of a tar file.

# tar -xvf testfile.tar

8. To combine extract the contents of tar and gz file.

# tar -xvzf testfile.tar

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