Comparison of gzip, Bzip2, and zip compression rates in Linux

There are many compression tools under linux, and the commonly used format is tar.gz, tar.bz2, zip, etc.

A simple comparison:

Tar-zcvf etc.tar.gz/etctar-jcvf etc.tar.bz2/etczip-ry etc.zip/etc

Note: you must add two options to the zip command.

-R indicates recursive directory. Otherwise, only one empty directory is pressed.

-Y indicates that the symbolic link is maintained, and the file to which the symbolic link is directed does not need to be pressed in.

Comparison results:

[Root @ centos6-244-desktop TMP] # ll-h total usage 25m-rw-r -- r --. 1 Root 7.1 m 11:13 October 11 etc.tar.bz2-RW-r --. 1 Root 8.2 m 11:13 October 11 etc.tar.gz-RW-r --. 1 Root 8.8 M October 11 11:13 etc.zip

You can see:

Compression rate Bzip2> gzip> zip

Zipping is more common, and now Windows software winrar,7zipis also very good for tar.gz support. Recommended use of tar.gz, Bzip2 requires more CPU