LINUX

OPERATING SYSTEM I
(CST8207)

Algonquin College

Week9

By: Arsalan Parsaei

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UNDERSTANDING DIGITAL ARCHIVING/COMPRESSION
Archive: file & transfer (data) to a storage
Files : ( .iso Linux box ) big file
Compression Technique that makes files smaller in & compressed
size
Voice: mp3 music ,voice recorder,
So what ? phone line VoIP
In production environment, this comes very
handy Recorded Video :

00101000101 Lossless: eliminate repetition | loss amount => 0

11010100101 Lossy: some data is removed | depend on ratio
00100010010
Example:
00101001101
Lossless zip gzip png bmp tiff wav
Lossy: jpg mpeg mp3 mp4

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ARCHIVING / COMPRESSION TOOLS

Linux Tools
tar
gzip
bzip2

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To compress file “f1” : $ gzip f1 (compress f1 to f1.gz)
To Decompress “f1.gz” : $ gunzip f1.gz (compress f1.gz back to f1)

To compress : $ bzip2 f1 (compress f1 to f1.bz2)

To Decompress: $ gunzip f1.bz2
Ratio: gzip –l *.* or gzip –l f1 shows the
compression ratio for a file or all the file in
current directory
To do file and directory compression and Archiving we use tar utility in Linux

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To compress all files/Dirs in current directory => $ tar –zcvf W9.tgz .

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COMPRESS/ARCHIVE WITH TAR & VERIFICATION

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DECOMPRESSING TAR FILE

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 CHALLENGE

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 WRITE A SCRIPT THAT IS….

 Write a script that is called “zipme.sh” to compress all files in current

directory (gzip) and show the ratio of compressed files

 Write a script called “backup.sh” to archive/compress all files/dirs. In

current folder and save it as mybackup.tgz

 Write a script extract mybackup.tgz to new directory call “Restore” in

home directory

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WHAT TO DO FOR NEXT WEEK

• Complete Week 9 assignment in this week lab

• Read the Week 9 contents and resources and practice
• Finish Quiz 2 by next lecture

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