Archiving and Compression

gzip

 

tar (.tar) - Tape Archive

Take multiple files and compress them into a single file.

-c - create archive

-f - filename

-x - extract

-z -compress/decompress

-f filename

Creating an archive (uncompressed)

tar -cf archivename.tar filestoarchive

Creating an archive (compressed)

tar -czf archivename.tar.gz filestoarchive

Extracting a tar archive (compressed)

tar -xzf archivename.tar.gz

Extracting a tar archive (uncompressed)

tar -xf archivename.tar

 

xz (.xz) - 

cpio (.io) -