Compressing and Uncompressing files

 

 

This is a very simple, quick and easy way of compression (zipping) and decompression (extracting) files using command line.

 

First of all open terminal and go to the file folder.

Example:                                                                                                                                                                    

# cd /home/user (go to the directory file was downloaded)
# ls (to make sure package is there)

 

To combine multiple files and/or directories into a single file, use the following command:

• tar -cvf your_file.tar inputfile1 inputfile2

To extract an archive created by tar:

• tar -xvf your_file.tar

Extracting gz and bz2

• bz2 files: tar -jxvf nome-do-arquivo.tar.bz2
• gz files: tar -zxvf nome-do-arquivo.tar.gz
  
  
  *v is for verbose mode

 

To unzip files use:

• unzip <file_name.zip>

To zip:

• zip <new_zip_file_name> <file_to_zip>

Example: I want to zip “backtrack.txt”

# zip bacaktrack.zip backtrack.txt

 

For multiple files:

# zip output_file_name.zip backtrack(1).txt backtrack(2).txt backtrack(3).txt

 

The installation procedure for software that comes in tar.gz and tar.bz2 packages isn’t always the same, but usually it’s like this:

# tar xvzf package.tar.gz (or tar xvjf package.tar.bz2)

# cd package

# ./configure

# make

# make install

 

- if you got any doubts just ask