Module 7

Archiving and Compression

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 Exam Objective
3.1 Archiving Files on the Command Line

Objective Summary
– Using archiving and compression with files and
directories

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Archiving and Compression

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 Archiving vs. Compression
• Archiving collapses multiple files into one
– A few files or multiple directories

• Compression makes a file smaller

– Remove redundant information, replace with a
smaller code
– Can be applied to individual files, groups of files or
entire directory trees

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Uses of Archiving and Compression
• Managing log files
• Sharing groups of files
– Project documents
– Source code
• Compressing for more efficient transfer
– Less data to send over the Internet or to tape
• Keep like files together grouped by time
– Backups

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 Lossless vs Lossy Compression
Lossless: Lossy:
• Decompressed file is • Decompressed file
the same as the original might have lost
• Doesn’t compress as information from the
well as lossy original
• For data you want to • Drops “unimportant”
preserve information from the
• Logs, documents, file to make it compress
better
binaries, configuration
• Images, sound, movies
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 gzip vs bzip2
• gzip and gunzip • Bzip2 and bunzip2
• Uses Lempel-Ziv coding • Burrows-Wheeler block
• Lossless compression, sorting
good efficiency • Lossless compression,
slightly more efficient
than gzip, but requires
more CPU
• Used almost identically
as gzip

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 Using gzip/gunzip/bzip2/bunzip2
gzip foo # removes foo; creates foo.gz
gunzip foo.gz # removes foo.gz; creates foo
gunzip –l foo.gz # shows statistics

bzip2 foo # removes foo; creates

foo.bz2
bunzip2 foo.bz2
bunzip2 –l foo.bz2 # DOESN’T EXIST!

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 Tape Archive - TAR
tar –cf foo.tar * # create
tar –tf foo.tar # show info
tar –xf foo.tar # extract

tar –czf foo.tgz * # gzip

tar –xjf foo.tbz # bunzip2

tar –xf foo.tar home/joe

# only extract home/joe
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 ZIP
zip output.zip file1 file2 file3
zip foo.zip file.doc # One file
zip –r foo.zip Documents # recurse

unzip –l foo.zip # show contents

unzip foo.zip # extract all
unzip foo.zip file1 # just file 1
unzip foo.zip Documents/projectA/*
# everything under Documents/projectA

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