Summarizing the usage of compressed file and decompression file in Linux

Summarize the use of compressed files and files in Linux, compressed files and file is the most common in Linux, a kind of operation, familiar with this part of the skills are also necessary, generally our common commands are: tar, unzip, bunzip2 and so on, How to use the right is also need to master a knowledge focus, the following we divided into two parts to the compressed file and decompression file description.

A, decompression small whole

Tar-i or BUNZIP2 commands can extract. bz2 files
Tar xvfj example.tar.bz2
Tar Xvfz example.tar.gz
Tar Xvfz example.tgz
Tar xvf Example.tar
Unzip Example.zip
Rpm2cpio Example.rpm│cpio-div
ARP Example.deb data.tar.gz | Tar zxf-
Tar-jvxf some.bz, is to change the zvxf of tar to JVXF
Zip/tar Rh8 has a graphical interface under the software file-roller can do this thing. In addition, you can use unzip *.zip to unlock the zip file, unrar *.rar untie the rar file, but the Unrar general system does not take, to download online:

[Root@localhost software]# wget http://www.rarlab.com/rar/rarlinux-4.2.0.tar.gz
[Root@localhost software]# tar zxvf rarlinux-4.2.0.tar.gz
[Root@localhost software]# cd rar
[Root@localhost rar]# make
[Root@localhost rar]# make install

Download rarlinux-4.2.0.tar.gz, unpack and make, and then unzip the RAR file with Unrar e Youfilename.rar
Alien offers a conversion between the tgz, RPM,. SLP and. Deb Compression formats:
Http://sourceforge.net/projects/alien
Sex provides an uncompressed interface for almost all visible compression formats:
Http://sourceforge.net/projects/sex

b, tar compression and decompression usage

Decompression: X
Compression: C
For Gz:z
For Bz2:j
For display: V
To extract an instance:
GZ file: Tar xzvf xxx.tar.gz
bz2 file: Tar xjvf xxx.tar.bz2
To compress an instance:
GZ file: Tar czvf xxx.tar.gz/path
bz2 file: Tar cjvf xxx.tar.bz2/path