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<h1><a id="ARCHIVE-FILES" name="ARCHIVE-FILES"></a>Chapter 15 Archive Files</h1>
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<dt>15.1 <a href="archive-files.html#ARCHIVE-FILES-GZIP"><tt
class="COMMAND">gzip</tt></a></dt>
<dt>15.2 <a href="archive-files-bzip2.html"><tt class="COMMAND">bzip2</tt></a></dt>
<dt>15.3 <a href="archive-files-tar.html"><tt class="COMMAND">tar</tt></a></dt>
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<h1 class="SECT1"><a id="ARCHIVE-FILES-GZIP" name="ARCHIVE-FILES-GZIP">15.1 <tt
class="COMMAND">gzip</tt></a></h1>
<p><tt class="COMMAND">gzip</tt>(1) is the GNU compression program. It takes a single
file and compresses it. The basic usage is as follows:</p>
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<samp class="PROMPT">%</samp> <kbd class="USERINPUT">gzip <var
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<p>The resulting file will be named <tt class="FILENAME"><var
class="REPLACEABLE">filename</var>.gz</tt> and will usually be smaller than the input
file. Note that <tt class="FILENAME">filename.gz</tt> will replace <tt
class="FILENAME">filename</tt>. This means that <tt class="FILENAME">filename</tt> will
no longer exist, even though a gzipped copy will. Regular text files will compress
nicely, while jpeg images, mp3s, and other such files will not compress too well as they
are already compressed. This basic usage is a balance of final file size and compression
time. The maximum compression can be achieved like so:</p>
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<samp class="PROMPT">%</samp> <kbd class="USERINPUT">gzip -9 <var
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<p>This will take a longer time to compress the file, but the result will be as small as
<tt class="COMMAND">gzip</tt> can make it. Using lower values for the command line option
will cause it to compress faster, but the file will not be as compressed.</p>
<p>Decompressing gzipped files can be done using two commands, which are really just the
same program. <tt class="COMMAND">gzip</tt> will decompress any file with a recognized
file extension. A recognized extension can be any of the following: <tt
class="FILENAME">.gz</tt>, <tt class="FILENAME">-gz</tt>, <tt class="FILENAME">.z</tt>,
<tt class="FILENAME">-z</tt>, <tt class="FILENAME">.Z</tt>, or <tt
class="FILENAME">-Z</tt>. The first method is to call <tt class="COMMAND">gunzip</tt>(1)
on a file, like so:</p>
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<samp class="PROMPT">%</samp> <kbd class="USERINPUT">gunzip <var
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<p>This will leave a decompressed version of infile in the current directory, and the <tt
class="FILENAME">.gz</tt> extension will be stripped from the filename. <tt
class="COMMAND">gunzip</tt> is really part of <tt class="COMMAND">gzip</tt> and is
identical to <tt class="COMMAND">gzip -d</tt>. As such, <tt class="COMMAND">gzip</tt> is
often pronounced <tt class="COMMAND">gunzip</tt>, as that name just sounds cooler.
:^)</p>
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