Archives and compressed files:<br><table border=1 cellpadding=1 cellspacing=0 class=tablesorter id=outtableARCHIVES>
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<th>Category</th>
<th>Command</th>
<th>Description</th>
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<td valign=top>bunzip2 file1.bz2 	</td>
<td valign=top>decompress a file called 'file1.bz2'</td>
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<td valign=top>bzip2 file1 	</td>
<td valign=top>compress a file called 'file1'</td>
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<td valign=top>gunzip file1.gz 	</td>
<td valign=top>decompress a file called 'file1.gz'</td>
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<td valign=top>gzip file1 	</td>
<td valign=top>compress a file called 'file1'</td>
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<td valign=top>gzip -9 file1 	</td>
<td valign=top>compress with maximum compression</td>
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<td valign=top>rar a file1.rar test_file 	</td>
<td valign=top>create an archive rar called 'file1.rar'</td>
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<td valign=top>rar a file1.rar file1 file2 dir1 	</td>
<td valign=top>compress 'file1', 'file2' and 'dir1' simultaneously</td>
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<td valign=top>rar x file1.rar 	</td>
<td valign=top>decompress rar archive</td>
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<td valign=top>unrar x file1.rar 	</td>
<td valign=top>decompress rar archive</td>
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<td valign=top>tar -cvf archive.tar file1 	</td>
<td valign=top>create a uncompressed tarball</td>
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<td valign=top>tar -cvf archive.tar file1 file2 dir1 	</td>
<td valign=top>create an archive containing 'file1', 'file2' and 'dir1'</td>
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<td valign=top>tar -tf archive.tar 	</td>
<td valign=top>show contents of an archive</td>
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<td valign=top>tar -xvf archive.tar 	</td>
<td valign=top>extract a tarball</td>
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<td valign=top>tar -xvf archive.tar -C /tmp 	</td>
<td valign=top>extract a tarball into / tmp</td>
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<td valign=top>tar -cvfj archive.tar.bz2 dir1 	</td>
<td valign=top>create a tarball compressed into bzip2</td>
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<td valign=top>tar -xvfj archive.tar.bz2 	</td>
<td valign=top>decompress a compressed tar archive in bzip2</td>
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<td valign=top>tar -cvfz archive.tar.gz dir1 	</td>
<td valign=top>create a tarball compressed into gzip</td>
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<td valign=top>tar -xvfz archive.tar.gz 	</td>
<td valign=top>decompress a compressed tar archive in gzip</td>
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<td valign=top>zip file1.zip file1 	</td>
<td valign=top>create an archive compressed in zip</td>
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<td valign=top>zip -r file1.zip file1 file2 dir1 	</td>
<td valign=top>compress in zip several files and directories simultaneously</td>
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<td valign=top>unzip file1.zip 	</td>
<td valign=top>decompress a zip archive</td>
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