Ubuntu Compress File

How to compress files in zip, gzip and bzip2

Zip

Deflate/Compress

zip -r filename.zip folder_and_files_within

Inflate/Decompress

unzip filename.zip

Gzip

Deflate/Compress

tar -czvf filename.tar.gz folder_and_files_within

Inflate/Decompress

tar -xzvf filename.tar.gz

Bzip2

Deflate/Compress

tar -cjvf filename.tar.bz2 folder_and_files_within

Inflate/Decompress

tar -xjvf filename.tar.bz2

Tar

Archive all the files in a directory into 1 file without compression

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Combine

tar -cvf filename.tar folder

Extract

tar -xvf filename.tar

7zip

To install in macOS

brew install p7zip

To add all files to 7z archive

7z a filename.7z *

To extract

7z e zipfile.zip
# OR
7z e rarfile.rar
# OR
7z e 7zipfile.7z

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