FileCompression
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I'm going to discuss the simple way of handling the popular GNU Tar compression format (tar.gz) & the BZ2 format (.bz2) via the command line (terminal).
Uncompressing a GNU Tar archive
GNU Tar
Example: file.tar.gz
tar -zxvf file.tar.gz
There, you're done, you'll have a folder with the contents of the compressed file.
BZ2
Example: file.tar.bz2
tar -jxvf file.tar.bz2
Creating GNU Tar archive
tar -cvf file.tar dir1 dir2 ...
file.tar is the name of the tar file we wish to create and dir1 dir2 are the names of the directories and/or files we wish to include in the tar archive. We can then compress the archive using gzip or bzip2.
Using gzip type
gzip file.tar
This will create file.tar.gz
Using bzip type
bzip2 file.tar
This will create file.tar.bz2