eskay

• Feb 15th, 2007

 

using "TAR" command

Langesh

• Feb 15th, 2007

 

use tar with -z optionex.. tar -zcvf 1.tar dir

cmanne

 Profile Answers by cmanne 

• Feb 27th, 2007

 

using COMPRESS, BZIP, GZIP and TAR utilities

Manish Singh

• Dec 2nd, 2012

 

The best possible way to compress in Unix is by using tar and gzip utilities together.

tar utility will club multiple files in a single file and make a file with .tar extension.

Then we can use the gzip command on this tar file which will compress all the files together.

The compression can go upto 20-30%B based on file contents.

siva

• Dec 15th, 2012

 

By using tar, compress, zip

PALLAVI

• May 2nd, 2013

 

Compress or expand files.

Syntax
gzip [ -acdfhlLnNrtvV19 ] [-S suffix] [ name ... ]
gunzip [ -acfhlLnNrtvV ] [-S suffix] [ name ... ]
zcat [ -fhLV ] [ name ... ]

Example:
gzip myfile

or using

compress [-c] [-f] [-v] filenames

Example: compress -v bigfile.exe

shreenidhi R

• Sep 10th, 2013

 

tar -zxvf filename.tar
tar -zxvf filename.tar.gz

Jerry Gallagher

 Profile Answers by Jerry Gallagher 

• Jan 3rd, 2014

 

There are many ways to compress files in UNIX. The commands used to compress a file in UNIX are compress, zip, gzip, bzip2, and tar.
compress file_to_compress
zip .zip-filename file_to_compress
gzip file_to_compress
bzip2 file_to_compress
tar czvf file.tgz file_to_compress

Abhinav

• Sep 22nd, 2015

 

You can use the command Unzip to compress a file.

pravin

• Nov 24th, 2015

 

gzip command can zip file.

KHIVENDRA SINGH ATTRI

• Dec 31st, 2015

 

No to unzip a file command used is gunzip file_name

Subrata Chakrabortty

• Mar 9th, 2016

 

compress/uncompress filename, gzip/gunzip file, bzip2/bunzip2 file

Manvendra

• Jun 4th, 2016

 

Lot of options available like gzip, compress and tar

Jaipalreddy

• Jun 22nd, 2017

 

gzep filename.gz