Compress and decompress files using command line tools - Linux
In almost default Linux installation, there is no default tools to compress and decompress files. There is utility to archive files called tar
, but it just archive the files without any compression.
So first we want to install zip
and unzip
tools to compress and decompress files.
apt-get install zip
apt-get install unzip
OR
sudo apt-get install zip unzip
Compress files / Directory
zip your_folder *
There is no need to add .zip extension or suffix as it is added automatically by zip
command. Then use the ls
command to verify new zip file.
ls
To compress an entire directory (including all subdirectories), use -r with zip command and it will recursively compress our files and folders.
zip -r your_folder *
Decompress files / Directory
unzip your_folder.zip
To extract one file from compressed directory, we want to specify that file name with extension.
unzip your_folder.zip cv.doc
In the above example, I specified the name of the file (cv.doc) to be extracted in unzip command.
If we want to extract to a particular destination folder, then we need to specify the destination folder.
unzip your_folder.zip -d /var/www/
Here I specified the destination folder ( /var/www ) with unzip command.
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