Working with Compressed Files
Another file management operation is compression and decompression of files, or the creation, listing, and expansion of file and directory archives. Linux distributions usually include several compression utilities you can use to create, compress, expand, or list the contents of compressed files and archives. These commands include the following:
bunzip2—Expands a compressed file.
bzip2—Compresses or expands files and directories.
gunzip—Expands a compressed file.
gzip—Compresses or expands files and directories. ...
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