HowTo/UncompressFilesInLinux

.tar

UNCOMPRESS

tar xvf FileName.tar

COMPRESS

tar cvf FileName.tar DirName

.gz

UNCOMPRESS

gunzip FileName.gz

OR

gzip -d FileName.gz

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gzip FileName

.tar.gz

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tar zxvf FileName.tar.gz

COMPRESS

tar zcvf FileName.tar.gz DirName

.bz2

UNCOMPRESS

bzip2 -d FileName.bz2

OR

bunzip2 FileName.bz2

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bzip2 -z FileName

.tar.bz2

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tar jxvf FileName.tar.bz2

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tar jcvf FileName.tar.bz2 DirName

.bz

UNCOMPRESS

bzip2 -d FileName.bz

OR

bunzip2 FileName.bz

COMPRESS

unknown

.tar.bz

UNCOMPRESS

tar jxvf FileName.tar.bz

COMPRESS

unknown

.Z

UNCOMPRESS =

uncompress FileName.Z

COMPRESS =

compress FileName

.tar.Z

UNCOMPRESS

tar Zxvf FileName.tar.Z

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tar Zcvf FileName.tar.Z DirName

.tgz

UNCOMPRESS

tar zxvf FileName.tgz

COMPRESS

unknown

.tar.tgz

UNCOMPRESS

tar zxvf FileName.tar.tgz

COMPRESS

tar zcvf FileName.tar.tgz FileName

.zip

UNCOMPRESS =

unzip FileName.zip

COMPRESS

zip FileName.zip DirName

.rar

INSTALL

RAR : http://www.rarsoft.com/download.htm

[root@www2 tmp]# cp rar_static /usr/bin/rar

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rar a FileName.rar

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rar e FileName.rar

.lha

INSTALL

lha : http://www.infor.kanazawa-it.ac.jp/~ishii/lhaunix/

[root@www2 tmp]# cp lha /usr/bin/

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lha -e FileName.lha

COMPRESS =

lha -a FileName.lha FileName

.rpm

UNCOMPRESS

rpm2cpio FileName.rpm | cpio -div

.deb

UNCOMPRESS

dpkg -x FileName.deb 

from: http://www.linuxgazette.com/node/9542