Best compression algorithms in Linux

compressions.md

Recommended Compression by Extention

Extention	compression
.burp	.tar.xz
.cap | .pcap | .pcapng	.tar.xz

Examples

In the following examples, I'll compress a directory named data to archive named compressed followed with its extention.

.tar.xz

tar cf - data | xz -9e - > compressed.tar.xz

.tar.gz

tar cf - data | gzip -9 - > compressed.tar.gz

.tar.bz2

tar cf - data | bzip2 -9 - > compressed.tar.bz2

.7z | 7zip

7z a -mx=9 compressed.7z data

.zip

zip -9 -r compressed.zip data