Working with compression utilities Tar, Gzip, Bzip2, Zip ...
## Use of Tar, Gzip, Bzip2, Zip ## ======================== gzip & gunzip: ---------------- gzip - compresses files gunzip - decompresses gzip files How to compress 'seq.txt' file using gzip, #gzip <source file> <Sourcefile.gz> #gzip seq.txt seq.txt.gz OR #gzip -c seq.txt > seq.txt.gz (gzip will redirect this file to seq.txt.gz file) How to uncompress 'seq.txt' file using gunzip, #gunzip seq.txt.gz - dumps to file, and removes compressed version bzip2 & bunzip2: ------------------ bzip2 - compresses files bunzip2 - decompresses .bz2 files How to compress 'seq.txt' file using bzip2, #bzip2 <source file> <Sourcefile.bz2> #bzip2 seq.txt seq.txt.bz2 OR #bzip2 -c seq.txt > seq.txt.bz2 (bzip2 will redirect this file to seq.txt.bz2 file) How to uncompress 'seq.txt' file using bunzip2, #bunzip2 seq.txt.bz2 - dumps to file, and removes compressed version zip ...