Zip Unzip / Compress Uncompress Archive files on linux

Zip and Unzip Files on Linux (With zip and unzip)

Ziping files/directories

zip file *

zip -r file *

Unziping files/directories

unzip  file.zip

extract a file

unzip file.zip  file.doc

Extract all files into a directory

unzip file.zip  -d /home/dir

List all files from file.zip

unzip -l file.zip

Compress Uncompress Archive on linux

Tar Command in Linux

• c - Creates a new .tar archive file
• v - Verbosely show the .tar file progress
• f - File name type of the archive file
• z - Compressed
• C - Specified directory
• x - Extract
• t - List

Create tar Archive File

tar -cvf file.tar /home/dir/

Create tar.gz Archive File

tar -cvzf file.tar.gz /home/dir

tar -cvzf file.tgz /home/dir

Create tar.bz2 Archive File

tar -cvfj file.tar.bz2 /home/php

tar -cvfj file.tar.tbz /home/php

tar -cvfj file.tar.tb2 /home/php

Untar tar Archive File

tar -xvf file.tar

tar -xvf file.tar -C /home/dir #Extract to a directory

Uncompress tar.gz Archive File

tar -xvf file.tar.gz

List Content tar.gz Archive File

tar -tvf file.tar.gz

List Content tar.bz2 Archive File

tar -tvf file.tar.bz2

Compress

$ gzip file1 file2 file3

NOTE : gzip used to compress a single file and it is unable to compress a folder . To compress a folder, use tar -z

Extract GZ file (Using gzip / guzip)

$ gzip -d file.gz

OR

$ gunzip file.gz

 

Other Tar Zip Operations on Linux CLI

Delete a File From a Tar file

tar --delete -f example.tar file_to_delete.txt