Linux CLI 38 🐧 gzip and bzip2 commands

a - gzip command

    gzip is used to compress and decompress files
    Files compression helps on saving disk space and ...
    ... trasfering files faster. use -k to keep the original file
    note that gzip cannot compress a folder. You can combine find and gzip
    find /directory/to/compress -type f -exec gzip {} \;
    or ls -l /directory/to/compress | gzip  foo.txt.gz
    gzip file.txt → compresses one file
    gzip -d file.txt.gz → decompresses one file
    gzip -v file.txt file1.txt → compresses multiple files


b - bzip2 command

    bzip2 is used to compress and decompress files
    like gzip, bzip2 deletes the original file. Use -k to keep it
    .bz2 extension shows that it is a compress file with bzip2
    bzip2 -k 1.txt → compresses a file and keep the original
    bzip2 -d 1.txt.bz2 → decompresses a file
    bzip2 -d -f 1.txt.bz2 → decompreses a file and overwrite
    bzip2 -k 1.txt 2.txt → compresses multiple files in multiple files
    bzmore 1.txt.bz2 → show information of the compressed file

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