Linux compression and archiving tools collation

gzip:. GZ, can only compress files, cannot compress directories

gzip Somefiles: The original file is deleted when the compression is complete

-D: Unzip

-#: 1-9, specify compression ratio, default is 6

Gunzip: Decompression

gunzip somefiles.gz: Delete the original compressed file after decompression is complete

Zcat somefiles.gz: View the contents of the text file in the gzip compressed file

bzip2:. bz2, can only compress files, cannot compress directory

A compression tool that has a greater compression ratio than gzip;

bzip2 somefiles: The original file is deleted when the compression is complete

-D: Unzip

-#: 1-9, specify compression ratio, default is 6

-K: Keep the original file when compressing

BUNZIP2: Unzip

bunzip2 somefiles.bz2: Delete the original compressed file after decompression is complete

Bzcat somefiles.bz2: Viewing the contents of a text file within a bz2 compressed file

XZ :. XZ, can only compress files, cannot compress directories

XZ somefiles: The original file is deleted when the compression is complete

-D: Unzip

-#: 1-9, specify compression ratio, default is 6

-K: Keep the original file when compressing

UNXZ: Unzip

unxz somefiles.xz: Delete the original compressed file after decompression is complete

Xzcat somefiles.xz: View text file contents in XZ compressed file

Zip : A tool that is both archived and compressed

zip filename.zip somefiles: Do not delete the original file after compression

Unzip Filename.zip: Unzip

- C : Specify the target path after decompression

Tar : Archive Tool

- C: Create an archive file

-F File.tar: Archived files for Operations

- x: Expand Archive

--xattrs: Preserves extended attribute information for files when archiving

- T: View files directly in tar without expanding the archive

- r: Append file

-ZCF: Archive and invoke gzip compression

-ZXF: Call gzip to unzip and expand Archive,-Z option to omit

-JCF: Archive and call bzip2 compression

-JXF: Call bzip2 to unzip and expand Archive,-Z option to omit

-JCF: Archive and invoke XZ compression

-JXF: Call XZ to unzip and expand Archive,-Z option to omit

Cpio : Archive Tool

-H < backup format;: Specify the file format to use when backing up

--quiet: Does not show how many chunks have been copied

-o: Execute copy-out mode, create backup file

-I : Restore data from a file or device to the system

-D: The directory is automatically created so that no path cannot be found when the restore occurs

C: A relatively new Portableformat-mode storage

-B: Let the preset blocks can be increased to 5120bytes, the default is 512bytes, make backup speed faster

- u: Update to overwrite old files with newer files

-V: Displays the file name in the backup process on the screen

-T: View file or device content created by Cpio

Unzip the Cpio file:

CPIO-IDMV < Filename.cpio

Unzip the img file:

CPIO-IDMV < filename.img

Backup restore:

Backup: Cpio-covb > [file|device] Back up data to a file or device

Restore: Cpio-icduv < [File|device} restores data to the system

Linux compression and archiving tools collation