archive.md

tar

# extract
tar -xvf archive.tar

# List files in archive.tar
tar -tvf archive.tar

# compress
tar -cvf  archive.tar foo bar
tar -czvf archive.tar foo bar # z = compress with gzip

gz (gzip)

# compress
gzip   file     # compress FILES in-place => file.gz
gzip -k file    # keep (don't delete) input files

# extract
gzip -d file.gz
gunzip  file.gz

bz2 (bzip2)

# compress
bzip2  file     # compress FILES in-place => file.bz
bzip2 -k file   # keep (don't delete) input files

# extract
bzip2 -d file.bz2
bunzip2  file.bz2

zip

# compress
zip archive.zip file1 file2
zip -r archive.zip folder1 folder2 folder3

# extract
unzip archive.zip

# list
unzip -l archive.zip

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