COMPRESS AND UNCOMPRESS FILES AND FOLDERS BY TERMINAL

ZIP - CROSS PLATFORM

To compress

  zip -r <archive_name.zip> <folder/files_to_compress>

Compress without MACOSX or .Filename and .ds store files, use the -X option in the command so
```
  zip -r -X <archive_name.zip> <folder/files_to_compress>
```
To extract
```
  unzip <archive_name.zip>
```

TAR.GZ – CROSS PLATFORM

NOTE: If you come from a Windows background, you may be familiar with the zip and rar formats. These are archives of multiple files compressed together.

In Unix and Unix-like systems (like Ubuntu), archiving and compression are separate.

tar puts multiple files into a single (tar) file.

gzip compresses one file (only).

reference

To compress

  tar -zcvf <archive_name.tar.gz> <folder/files_to_compress>

To extract
```
  tar -zxvf <archive_name.tar.gz>
```

To extract

  tar -zxvf <archive_name.tar.gz> -C </Path/To/Extract>

c = Create
x = Extract
v = Verbose mode
p = Preserving files and directory permissions.
z = This will tell tar that compress the files further to reduce the size of tar file.
f = It allows tar to get file name.
C = Extract in different directory.

TAR.BZ2 – CROSS PLATFORM

To compress

  tar -jcvf <archive_name.tar.bz2> <folder_to_compress>

To extract
```
  tar -jxvf <archive_name.tar.bz2>
```

GZ

To compress
```
  gzip <folder_to_compress>
```

To extract

  gunzip <archivename.gz>
  gzip -d <archivename.gz>

Reference

mcortes19/Compress and uncompress.md

COMPRESS AND UNCOMPRESS FILES AND FOLDERS BY TERMINAL

ZIP - CROSS PLATFORM

TAR.GZ – CROSS PLATFORM

TAR.BZ2 – CROSS PLATFORM

GZ