Compression Commands

gunzip Linux Command

Decompresses a .gz file back to its original form.

What does gunzip do?

Decompresses a .gz file back to its original form.

gunzip filename.gz

gunzip largefile.txt.gz

Compresses a single file using the gzip algorithm (replaces original with .gz).

Compresses files using the bzip2 algorithm (better compression than gzip, slower).

Archives multiple files into a single tarball. Use -czf to compress with gzip.

Decompresses a .bz2 file back to its original form.

High-compression archiver supporting many formats (7z, zip, rar, tar, etc.).

Creates a compressed ZIP archive of files and directories.