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Linux Compression Tools

Posted on : 25-10-2011 | By : admin | In : Admin Tools

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Excerpt: There are two main compression utilities used in GNU/Linux. It’s normal to first “tar” a bunch of files (using the tar program of course) and then compress them with either bzip2 or gzip. Of course either of these tools could be used without tar, although they are not designed to work on more than one file (they use the UNIX tools philosophy, let tar group the files, they will do the compression…this simplifies their program). It’s normal to use tar and then use these tools on them, or use tar with the correct options to use these compression programs.     GNU zip….

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