Archives and compressed files

# bunzip2 file1.bz2

decompress a file called 'file1.bz2' [man]

# bzip2 file1

compress a file called 'file1' [man]

# gunzip file1.gz

decompress a file called 'file1.gz' [man]

# gzip file1

compress a file called 'file1' [man]

# gzip -9 file1

compress with maximum compression [man]

# rar a file1.rar test_file

create an archive rar called 'file1.rar' [man]

# rar a file1.rar file1 file2 dir1

compress 'file1', 'file2' and 'dir1' simultaneously [man]

# rar x file1.rar

decompress rar archive [man]

# tar -cvf archive.tar file1

create a uncompressed tarball [man]

# tar -cvf archive.tar file1 file2 dir1

create an archive containing 'file1', 'file2' and 'dir1' [man]

# tar -tf archive.tar

show contents of an archive [man]

# tar -xvf archive.tar

extract a tarball [man]

# tar -xvf archive.tar -C /tmp

extract a tarball into / tmp [man]

# tar -cvfj archive.tar.bz2 dir1

create a tarball compressed into bzip2 [man]

# tar -xvfj archive.tar.bz2

decompress a compressed tar archive in bzip2 [man]

# tar -cvfz archive.tar.gz dir1

create a tarball compressed into gzip [man]

# tar -xvfz archive.tar.gz

decompress a compressed tar archive in gzip [man]

# unrar x file1.rar

decompress rar archive [man]

# unzip file1.zip

decompress a zip archive [man]

# zip file1.zip file1

create an archive compressed in zip [man]

# zip -r file1.zip file1 file2 dir1

compress in zip several files and directories simultaneously [man]