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    CheatSheet Linux Compress and Decompress

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    This document provides a cheat sheet for compressing and decompressing files using common Linux commands. It lists the commands to unpack files compressed in formats such as tar, tar.gz, rar, zip, gz, bz2, 7z, xz, jar, and war. It also lists the commands to compress files into formats like tar, gz, tgz, bz2, and zip. Additionally, it describes some advanced usage of these commands like excluding files from compression, removing files from an existing tarball, and adding password protection.

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    This document provides a cheat sheet for compressing and decompressing files using common Linux commands. It lists the commands to unpack files compressed in formats such as tar, tar.gz, rar, zip, gz, bz2, 7z, xz, jar, and war. It also lists the commands to compress files into formats like tar, gz, tgz, bz2, and zip. Additionally, it describes some advanced usage of these commands like excluding files from compression, removing files from an existing tarball, and adding password protection.

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    This document provides a cheat sheet for compressing and decompressing files using common Linux commands. It lists the commands to unpack files compressed in formats such as tar, tar.gz, rar, zip, gz, bz2, 7z, xz, jar, and war. It also lists the commands to compress files into formats like tar, gz, tgz, bz2, and zip. Additionally, it describes some advanced usage of these commands like excluding files from compression, removing files from an existing tarball, and adding password protection.

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    CheatSheet: Linux Compress And Decompress

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    cheatsheetdenny December 30, 2018

    1.1 Decompress

    Name Summary

    Unpack *.tar tar -xvf ./file.tar

    Unpack *.tar.gz tar xvzf ./file.tar.gz

    Unpack *.rar unrar e ./file.rar

    Unpack *.zip unzip ./file.zip

    Unpack *.gz gunzip ./file.gz; gzip -d file.gz

    Unpack *.bz2 tar -jxvf file.tar.bz2 -C


    /tmp/extract_here/

    Unpack *.7z 7z e ./file.7z install p7zip first

    Unpack *.xz tar -xf ./file.tar.xz

    Unpack *.jar jar -xvf ./file.jar

    Unpack *.war jar -xvf ./file.war

    Unpack *.tgz tar -xf ./file.tgz

    1.2 Compress Common Format

    Name Command

    Pack to *.tar tar -cvf ./file.tar <dir_to_compress>

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    Name Command

    Pack to *.gz tar -zcvf ./newfile.tar.gz


    <dir_to_compress>

    Pack to *.tgz tar -cvzf backup.tgz *

    Pack to tar -cvf ./file.tar.bz2 <dir_to_compress>


    *.bz2

    Pack to *.zip zip -r ./file.zip <dir_to_compress>

    1.3 Advanced Usage

    Name Command

    Pack with exclude tar --exclude "*.git*" -cvf file.tar


    <dir_to_compress>

    Remove a single file from tarball tar --delete -f file.tar file1.txt

    Add file to tarball. -r indicates tar -rf file.tar file1.txt


    append

    Create archive with password zip -er my.zip some_folder


    protection

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