Compression Tools Guide Installation Install compress tools yum install bzip2 bzip2 Commands Compress the 'messages1' file bzip2 messages1 Compress all files starting with 'messages' bzip2 messages* Compress all '.log' files in the directory bzip2 *.log Uncompress 'messages1.bz2' bunzip2 messages1.bz2 Uncompress all 'messages' files bunzip2 messages* Uncompress all compressed files bunzip2 * gzip Commands Compress 'messages2' (similar to bzip2) gzip -v messages2 Compress all files in 'log/' directory recursively gzip -vr log/ Uncompress all files in 'log/' directory recursively gunzip -vr log/ zip Commands zip -r log.zip log/ # Create a zip file for the 'log' folder Tar Command Guide Basic tar Commands Create a tar archive tar -cvf messages5.tar messages5 Extract files from archive tar -xvf messages5.tar Compress a folder tar -cvf log.tar log/ Checking Folder Size du -h log # Check size of 'log' folder Creating Compressed Archives Create and compress with gzip tar -czvf messages8.tgz messages8 Create and compress with bzip tar -cjvf messages9.tgz messages9 Extracting Compressed Archives Unzip bzip2 archive bunzip2 messages6.tar.bz2 Compress a tar file using gzip gzip messages2.tar Check which compression method was used file messages2.tar.gz