compressionarchiving.md

Compression & Archiving

Create a tar archive

[tar](/man/tar) cf [archive].tar [files] [tar](/man/tar) czf [archive].tar.gz [files] [tar](/man/tar) cjf [archive].tar.bz2 [files] [tar](/man/tar) cJf [archive].tar.xz [files]

Extract a tar archive

[tar](/man/tar) xf [archive].tar [tar](/man/tar) xzf [archive].tar.gz [tar](/man/tar) xjf [archive].tar.bz2 [tar](/man/tar) xJf [archive].tar.xz

Extract to a specific directory

[tar](/man/tar) xf [archive].tar -C [directory]

List archive contents

[tar](/man/tar) tf [archive].tar [tar](/man/tar) tzf [archive].tar.gz

Compress with gzip

[gzip](/man/gzip) [file] [gzip](/man/gzip) -k [file] [gzip](/man/gzip) -9 [file]

Decompress gzip

[gunzip](/man/gunzip) [file].gz [zcat](/man/zcat) [file].gz

Compress with bzip2

[bzip2](/man/bzip2) [file] [bzip2](/man/bzip2) -k [file]

Decompress bzip2

[bunzip2](/man/bunzip2) [file].bz2 [bzcat](/man/bzcat) [file].bz2

Compress with xz

[xz](/man/xz) [file] [xz](/man/xz) -k [file] [xz](/man/xz) -9 [file]

Decompress xz

[unxz](/man/unxz) [file].xz [xzcat](/man/xzcat) [file].xz

Compress with zstd

[zstd](/man/zstd) [file] [zstd](/man/zstd) -k [file] [zstd](/man/zstd) -19 [file]

Decompress zstd

[unzstd](/man/unzstd) [file].zst [zstdcat](/man/zstdcat) [file].zst

Create a zip archive

[zip](/man/zip) [archive].zip [files] [zip](/man/zip) -r [archive].zip [directory] [zip](/man/zip) -e [archive].zip [files]

Extract a zip archive

[unzip](/man/unzip) [archive].zip [unzip](/man/unzip) [archive].zip -d [directory] [unzip](/man/unzip) -l [archive].zip

Show zip archive info

[zipinfo](/man/zipinfo) [archive].zip

Create a 7z archive

[7z](/man/7z) a [archive].7z [files]

Extract a 7z archive

[7z](/man/7z) x [archive].7z

List 7z archive contents

[7z](/man/7z) l [archive].7z

Create a cpio archive

[find](/man/find) . | [cpio](/man/cpio) -o > [archive].cpio

Extract a cpio archive

[cpio](/man/cpio) -id < [archive].cpio

Extract a rar archive

[unrar](/man/unrar) x [archive].rar

Create an ar archive

[ar](/man/ar) rcs [archive].a [files]